[Ti] PB Batteries

[Dr. Trevor J. Hutley]

At 15:27 -0500 7/2/05, John Griffin wrote:
>Hmm! All I get is a series of error codes!


John - well, the script worked for me, in that it gave me the 
following output in Terminal:

	capacity=4032 amperage=0 current=3840 voltage=12365

These values presumably reflect my current 95% state of charge, and 
that of being plugged in.

When I unplug, the values are:

	capacity=4032 amperage=1469 current=3794 voltage=11614

This is the ACTUAL script (between the lines) that I just pasted in 
to Terminal, so I know it works:
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#
#!/bin/bash

[ -x /usr/sbin/ioreg ] && \
     /usr/sbin/ioreg -p IODeviceTree -n "battery" -w 0 | \
     sed -ne '/| *{/,/| *}/ {
	s/^[ |]*//g
	/^[{}]/!p
        }' | \
	   awk '/Battery/ {
                gsub("[{}()\"]","", $3)
                gsub(","," ",$3)
                split($3,ct," ")
                # extract flag value and convert to hex
                sub("Flags=","",ct[2])
                str=sprintf("Flags=%d/0x%03x",ct[2],ct[2])
                sub("Flags=[0-9]*",str,$3)
                # get max and current charge levels
                sub(".*=","",ct[4])
                sub(".*=","",ct[5])
                printf("%s [%.1f%%]\n", tolower($3), 100*ct[5]/ct[4])
                }'

#EOF
#
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regards,  Trevor