Adjust the display brightness from command-line for Linux

Introduction

If you are looking for an easy way to adjust display brightness from the command-line in Linux, then I have good news for you.

Meet 🔆 set-brightness

A very simple command-line utility which allows you to adjust display brightness from the command-line.

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Installation

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NOTE

• Currently, it works well for Intel display laptops. However, if you encounter hardware not supported then please raise an issue and share the output of the following command.

$ ls -lh /sys/class/backlight

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tuladhar / set-brightness

🔆 Adjust the display brightness from command-line for Linux (open-source)

🔆 set-brightness - Adjust the display brightness from command-line for Linux

USAGE

set-brightness - Adjust the display brightness from command-line for Linux (v1.0)

USAGE: set-brightness [LEVEL]

OPTIONS:
  LEVEL              Brightness level, specify a value between 0 - 100
  -h or --help       Print help (this message) and exit
  --version          Print version information and exit

EXAMPLES:
        set-brightness 50 - Set brightness level to 50%

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Comments

[Fulton Browne]

I had a couple of issue with my machine with no bash or sudo (KISS linux). so I removed bashisms (Bash only expressions) and made fully posix compliant. I also had it check for sudo before running so users could run the command as root instead.

github.com/tuladhar/set-brightness...