Display the system temperature

Here are a couple of BASH scripts to display the temperature of the BCM2835 SoC used on the Raspberry PI. Using this its fairly simple to create a temperature logging system or even going a step further and if the temperature exceeded a maximum you could shutdown your system.

Here are a couple of simple scripts, open the terminal and enter the following

Both are similar but the second adds a 1 second delay between readings

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#!/bin/bash
for i in {1..10}
do
/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp
done

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Example 2

[codesyntax lang=”bash”]

#!/bin/bash
for i in {1..10}
do
/opt/vc/bin/vcgencmd measure_temp
sleep 1
done

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