Question

In terminal we can use

top -l 2 -F -R | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR>5 {printf "%d", $7+0}'

to get the value of cpu usage how can i get the value as an integer in apple script?
i tried this

set usedSpace to (do shell script "top -l 2 -F -R | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR>5 {printf "%d", $7+0}'") as integer

and gor the error

Expected “,” but found unknown token

then tried like this

set usedSpace to (do shell script "top -l 2 -F -R | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR>5 '; printf $5}") as integer

and got an error like this

error “Can’t make \”CPU usage: 6.40% user, 5.41% sys, 88.17% idle }\”
into type integer.” number -1700 from “CPU usage: 6.40% user, 5.41%
sys, 88.17% idle }” to integer

can anybody help me solve this?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Try:

set usedSpace to (do shell script "top -l 2 -F -R | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR>5 {printf \"%d\", $7+0}'") as integer

or

set usedSpace to (do shell script "top -l 2 -F -R | awk '/CPU usage/ && NR>5 '; printf $5}") as text