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How to emit battery data in a one-liner on MacOS

In MacOS the command to emit data about battery status is: pmset -g batt If you want to record the battery percentage level in a file at regular intervals, here is how to record the data in a one-liner: while true; do \ echo “$(date “+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S”) ” \ “$(pmset -g batt | grep “%”…

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In MacOS the command to emit data about battery status is:

pmset -g batt

If you want to record the battery percentage level in a file at regular intervals, here is how to record the data in a one-liner:

while true; do \
    echo "$(date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S") " \
        "$(pmset -g batt | grep "%" | cut -f 2 | cut -f 1 -d ';')" \
        >> battery.txt; \
    sleep 60; \
done &

which does fit in a single line in Terminal 😉

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