Checking Battery Level

This does not work for me, I get the response Command not found, what am I missing?
frank malinowski wrote on :
Mac Addict gives a UNIX command to check on battery level from the Terminal program: ioreg-l|grep-iIOBatteryInfo This does not work for me, I get the response Command not found, what am I missing? Are there spaces or do I have the characters wrong? I have a PBG4Ti400 OS 10.2.8
Bev A. Kupf replied on :

On Sun, 07 Mar 2004 03:29:59 GMT, frank malinowski (Xyakers@redacted.invalid) wrote:

Mac Addict gives a UNIX command to check on battery level from the Terminal program: ioreg-l|grep-iIOBatteryInfo This does not work for me

ioreg -l | grep -i iobatteryinfo

Hanspeter ‘Happl’ Oberlin replied on :

In article Xyakers-0603041930000001@redacted.invalid, Xyakers@redacted.invalid (frank malinowski) wrote:

Mac Addict gives a UNIX command to check on battery level from the Terminal program: ioreg-l|grep-iIOBatteryInfo This does not work for me, I get the response Command not found, what am I missing? Are there spaces or do I have the characters wrong? I have a PBG4Ti400 OS 10.2.8

The correct command is ioreg -l|grep -i IOBatteryInfo

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Peter Renzland replied on :

Hanspeter 'Happl' Oberlin wrote:

Xyakers@redacted.invalid (frank malinowski) wrote:

Mac Addict gives a UNIX command to check on battery level from the Terminal program: ioreg-l|grep-iIOBatteryInfo This does not work for me, I get the response Command not found, what am I missing? Are there spaces or do I have the characters wrong? I have a PBG4Ti400 OS 10.2.8

The correct command is ioreg -l|grep -i IOBatteryInfo

That is, apparently, what was intended. However, as Bev implied, observing the CAPS is a bit pointless with "-i".

I would suggest using this:

/usr/sbin/ioreg -p IODeviceTree -n battery -w 0 |grep Bat

And the OP (Frank) might be better off using XBattery, which is very pretty. Or GÆran Larsson's well-written shell script: battery. Or my poorly written batmon, especially if he has a "problem" battery.