Extracting Cycle Count From System Report

From the Terminal:

$ system_profiler SPPowerDataType | awk '/Cycle Count/ {print $3}'

Return: 96 (on my 2014 MacBook Air)

Hi techteej, I think I'm trying to create roughly the same thing.

I'm using Automator, and the following;

[system_profiler SPPowerDataType | awk '/Cycle Count/ {print $3}']

returns;

567

I'm looking to add the date it was run, like a time/datestamp, to return a result like this;

567, dd/mm/yyyy

I'm not an expert in this area, so any help would be gratefully received.

Using OS X 10.11.4 (El Capitan)

date "+%d/%m/%Y"

returns

"25/05/2016"

Thanks Viking for the quick response.

Because I'm not an expert, the results (for the date) appear on a second line, how do I get them to be in the same line? What's the correct structure or syntax?

I get;

567

25/05/2016

I would like;

567 25/05/2016

I would like this so i can import my text file into excel at a later stage.

temp=$(system_profiler SPPowerDataType | awk '/Cycle Count/ {print $3}'); echo "$temp $(date "+%d/%m/%Y")"

Result: nnn 25/05/2016

A cleaner solution where awk handles printing all the output:

system_profiler SPPowerDataType | awk -v today="$(date "+%d/%m/%Y")" '/Cycle Count/ {print $3, today}'

Thanks Mark, for cleaning up my act. 😉

Viking, Mark, thanks for your time on this. I've modified it slightly and it's just the job.

temp=$(system_profiler SPPowerDataType | awk '/Cycle Count/ {print $3}')","; echo "$temp$(date "+%d/%m/%Y")"

and it returned

592,26/05/2016

I now run this daily using a scheduled 'Automator' job and it writes to a log. I can then see how quickly I'm approaching my 1000 cycles for a MacBook Pro.