I needed to find out how can I change my laptop backlight brighness using just a command line. Solution for that problem was easier than I thought because you can do
that just with one line =)

On my laptop which is Dell Latitude D430 brigness file was on /sys/class/backlight/dell_backlight directory but it’s probably almost on the same place /sys/class/backlight/ on every laptop (and linux distribution) which is it possible to change.

Before you start to change your laptop display brightness you should find out which is the maximum brigness of your screen which you can see with cat command from the max_brigtness file like this:

cat /sys/class/backlight/dell_backlight/max_brightness

On my laptop max brightness was 7 and surprisingly lowest brightness is 0 so let’s change brightness between 0-7 =)

So if I want to save energy and turn backlight as dark as possible I just put 0 to brightness file like this:

echo 0 > /sys/class/backlight/dell_backlight/brightness

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