How to get temperature of CPU on Linux

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How can I get the current temperature of the CPU on Linux?

There are several questions and answers on getting the CPU temperature using C#, but all of them seem to be Windows specific.

Not sure why this was downvoted. This is a valid question. – IanNorton Feb 25 '12 at 14:56 — IanNorton, Feb 25 '12 at 14:56

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 25 '12 at 13:07

If you know how to read a file in C# , and your computer is ACPI enabled, you may be able to read a file

 /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature

on other linux flavors it might be

 /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/temperature

You would have to run this using mono on linux of course.

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;

class Test
{
    public static void Main()
    {
        string path = @"/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature";
        if (!File.Exists(path))
        {
            Console.WriteLine("Could not find "+path);
            return;
        }

        string readText = File.ReadAllText(path);
        Console.WriteLine(readText);
    }
}

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 28 '17 at 20:55

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Without C#, you can use this command:

sudo sensors

Labels used in the output can be found in /etc/sensors3.conf

answered Sep 28 '17 at 20:55

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