Only view the CPU temperature from command `sensors`

You can process the output of sensors command with grep and/or cut to format it the way you want.

To get only the line reporting the CPU temperature you can use this (including the high and critical limits):

sensors | grep -A 0 'CPU T' 

The following will give you only the temperature (with the °C suffix) :

sensors | grep -A 0 'CPU T' | cut -c18-25

This will give the output as you indicated at the end of your question:

sensors | grep -A 0 'CPU T' | cut -c1-25

The string below should work for you. grep -A[4] gives the next 4 lines The watch -d refreshes the changes and -d highlights the difference from the last refresh.

watch -d 'sensors | grep 'CPU Temperature''

Install the small apci package with the following command:

sudo apt-get install acpi

You will need to press Y for confirmation for the first time.

Now to find the CPU temperature with this command:

acpi -t