Quick question. How would I go about having a shell script to do the following:
- execute unix command (pmset -g ps) to check the output of that script every 5 seconds, and then if the output of that command falls to below say 40% (example of output is: 'Currenty drawing from 'AC Power'
-iBox 100%; charging'), then for it to run a unix shell script...
Any help would be much appreciated.
Edit, for Bash 2.05 and later:
#!/bin/bash
tab=$'\t'
while true # run forever, change to stop on some condition
do
threshold=100
until (( threshold < 40 ))
do
sleep 5
result=$(pmset -g ps)
threshold="${result#*iBox$tab}"
threshold="${threshold%\%*}"
done
shell_script
done
Original, for Bash 3.2 and later:
#!/bin/bash
pattern='[0-9]+' # works if there's only one sequence of digits in the output, a more selective pattern is possible if needed
while true # run forever, change to stop on some condition
do
threshold=100
until (( threshold < 40 ))
do
sleep 5
result=$(pmset -g ps)
[[ $result =~ $pattern ]]
threshold=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
done
shell_script
done
Something like this would work
pmset -g ps | perl -pe 'if(/%.*Ibox ([0-9]+)%; ch.*$/ and $1 < 40){system "nameofshellscript"}'