sensors knows about certain chips, and outputs nicely formatted readings for them; but it can also display the information of unknown chips, as long as libsensors knows about them.

-c config-file

Specify a configuration file. If no file is specified, the name `sensors.conf' is used. If the name does not contain a directory slash, or this parameter is not present, the following path is examined: /etc, /usr/lib/sensors, /usr/local/lib/sensors, /usr/lib, /usr/local/lib, .

-h

Prints a help text

-s

Evaluates all `set' statements in the configuration file. You must probably be `root' to do this. If this parameter is not specified, no `set' statement is evaluated.

-a

Show the algorithm for each chipset. Note that algorithms are no more named since Linux 2.6, so this option is deprecated and will probably go away in a near future.

-A

Do not show the adapter for each chipset.

-U

Hide unknown chips.

-u

Treats all chips as unknown ones. Output will be of much lower quality; this option is only added for testing purposes.

-v

Returns the program version.

-f

Prints the temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit instead of Celsius.

The system wide configuration file. See (5) for further details.