Get the current status of your battery with this command.
deusexmachina:~ jason$ sudo systemstats | grep "Battery Power" Battery Power: -8095 mW (-15.5 %/hr) Battery Power: -8034 mW (-15.6 %/hr) Battery Power: -6774 mW (-13.3 %/hr) Battery Power: -8080 mW (-15.3 %/hr) Battery Power: -7866 mW (-15.3 %/hr) |
Return information about CPU usage, this tells you the average frequency, and the state of the CPU cores.
deusexmachina:~ jason$ sudo systemstats | grep -A 8 "CPU Summary" CPU Summary =========== Avg. Frequency: 1.893 GHz Package Power:: Pkg: 2.99W, CPU 1.62W, GPU: 0.05W Pkg Interrupt Rate: Total: 2494Hz ARPT: 704Hz HDEF: 1Hz IGPU: 138Hz IPI: 1321Hz MacBookAir7,2: 23Hz SMC: 1Hz TMR: 306Hz Pkg C-State Res: Total: 54.8% C2: 18% C3: 3% C6: 5% C7: 29% C9: 0% C10: 0% Cores C-State Res: C3: 0% C6: 0% C7: 69% GPU C-State Res: RC1: 0% RC6: 94% XCPM Tier Res: TT5: 0% background: 1% idle: 83% normal: 14% |
The use of the -A 8 parameter to grep, tells it to return 8 lines of text after the matching line. The -B 8 parameter, would tell GNU grep to return 8 lines before the matching line.
This utility can also give us information about the WIFI status.
deusexmachina:~ jason$ sudo systemstats | grep -A 26 "Airport Summary" Airport Summary =============== Total Duration: 8987.9 s awdl0_rx_bytes: 0 bytes (0 bytes/s) awdl0_bk_tx_bytes: 0 bytes (0 bytes/s) awdl0_be_tx_bytes: 0 bytes (0 bytes/s) awdl0_vo_tx_bytes: 0 bytes (0 bytes/s) awdl0_tx_bytes: 0 bytes (0 bytes/s) awdl0_vi_tx_bytes: 0 bytes (0 bytes/s) en_rx_bytes: 6.02 GB (702 KB/s) en_bk_tx_bytes: 201.4 MB (23 KB/s) en_be_tx_bytes: 84.2 MB (10 KB/s) en_vo_tx_bytes: 187 KB (21 bytes/s) en_tx_bytes: 285.8 MB (33 KB/s) en_vi_tx_bytes: 9 KB (1 byte/s) phy_scan_user_scan_count: 308.3 ( 0.0Hz) awdl_radio_rx_dur: 0.0 s ( 0.0%) phy_scan_user_scan_dur: 78.9 s ( 0.9%) awdl_aw_dur: 0.0 s ( 0.0%) phy_activity_radio_tx_dur: 412.9 s ( 4.6%) awdl_pscan_dur: 0.0 s ( 0.0%) phy_activity_radio_rx_dur: 418.8 s ( 4.7%) awdl_radio_tx_dur: 0.0 s ( 0.0%) |
This shows the amount of transferred data and the total duration of the wireless usage.
It is also possible on a Macintosh machine to see which applications are using the most CPU.
deusexmachina:~ jason$ sudo systemstats | grep -A 30 "Energy Impact:" Energy Impact: CPU Time (CPU % of wall) Energy Score (Energy % of total) 00:02:17 (1.4 %) 10078200.16 (81.8 %) com.apple.WindowServer 00:28:19 (17.8 %) 1874086.85 (15.2 %) org.mozilla.firefox 00:22:22 (14.0 %) 241299.25 (2.0 %) com.apple.system 00:09:07 (5.7 %) 55008.01 (0.4 %) com.apple.softwareupdated 00:02:43 (1.7 %) 17392.06 (0.1 %) com.apple.system_installd Ranked by Interrupts / Idle Wakeups: 7441505 (777.4/sec) 5347650 wkups (558.7/sec) com.apple.system 1052357 (109.9/sec) 365779 wkups (38.2/sec) org.mozilla.firefox 81445 (8.5/sec) 36247 wkups (3.8/sec) com.apple.WindowServer 23273 (2.4/sec) 7524 wkups (0.8/sec) com.apple.Spotlight 15805 (1.7/sec) 8572 wkups (0.9/sec) com.apple.audio.coreaudiod Ranked by Process Launches (incl. XPC svcs. & fork()): 271 com.apple.system_installd 152 com.apple.Terminal 136 com.apple.Spotlight 109 com.apple.periodic-daily 84 com.apple.diskarbitrationd Ranked by GPU: 06:59:19 262.84 % com.apple.WindowServer 01:10:41 44.31 % org.mozilla.firefox 00:00:00 0.00 % com.apple.system 00:00:00 0.00 % com.apple.SystemUIServer.agent 00:00:00 0.00 % com.apple.InstallerProgress Ranked by Focal Duration: 01:09:49 43.77 % com.apple.finder |
Use this utility to get comprehensive data about your network interfaces in your Mac OSX machine.
deusexmachina:~ jason$ system_profiler SPNetworkDataType |
Get a complete listing of all WIFI networks around you.
deusexmachina:~ jason$ system_profiler SPAirPortDataType
Wi-Fi:
Software Versions:
CoreWLAN: 11.0 (1200.31)
CoreWLANKit: 12.0 (1200.31)
Menu Extra: 12.0 (1200.47)
System Information: 12.0 (1200.3)
IO80211 Family: 12.0 (1200.12.2)
Diagnostics: 7.0 (700.5)
AirPort Utility: 6.3.7 (637.6)
Interfaces:
en0:
Card Type: AirPort Extreme (0x14E4, 0x117)
Firmware Version: Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (7.21.171.133.1a2)
MAC Address: e0:ac:cb:9c:18:a2
Locale: FCC
Country Code: AU
Supported PHY Modes: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
Supported Channels: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 100, 104, 108, 112, 116, 132, 136, 140, 144, 149, 153, 157, 161, 165
Wake On Wireless: Supported
AirDrop: Supported
AirDrop Channel: 149
Auto Unlock: Supported
Status: Connected
Current Network Information:
OPTUS58FFG69:
PHY Mode: 802.11ac
BSSID: c8:14:51:5f:a9:54
Channel: 36
Country Code: AU
Network Type: Infrastructure
Security: WPA2 Personal
Signal / Noise: -38 dBm / -95 dBm
Transmit Rate: 867
MCS Index: 9
Other Local Wi-Fi Networks:
OPTUS_B8E926:
PHY Mode: 802.11n
BSSID: f4:6b:ef:b8:e9:27
Channel: 11
Country Code: AU
Network Type: Infrastructure
Security: WPA/WPA2 Personal
Signal / Noise: -84 dBm / 0 dBm
TelstraD223D3:
PHY Mode: 802.11n
BSSID: 10:13:31:d2:23:d3
Channel: 6
Network Type: Infrastructure
Security: WPA2 Personal
Signal / Noise: -92 dBm / 0 dBm
TelstraD22F23:
PHY Mode: 802.11n
BSSID: 12:13:31:d2:2f:2b
Channel: 108
Country Code: AU
Network Type: Infrastructure
Security: WPA2 Personal
Signal / Noise: -87 dBm / 0 dBm
TelstraD22F23:
PHY Mode: 802.11n
BSSID: 10:13:31:d2:2f:23
Channel: 11
Network Type: Infrastructure
Security: WPA2 Personal
Signal / Noise: -83 dBm / 0 dBm |
These tips will be a great help when using a Macintosh laptop around town, now you know how to list wireless networks and get system information very easily with the command line in Terminal.app.