Concatenating date and cycle count to file on startup

batterysystem-prefsterminal

I have the following code from here to find the cycle count of the battery on my computer:

system_profiler SPPowerDataType | grep "Cycle Count" | awk '{print $3}'

I will enclose it in a simple app that I will put in the Utilities folder in my applications folder as follows: NameofApp.sh.app->Contents->MacOS->NameofApp.sh. I will have it open on startup by means of System Preferences->Users and Groups->Login Items.

I was hoping to use the date command in terminal which gives output (As I'm sure you know) as Tue Oct 7 19:32:33 EDT 2014. I was hoping to delimit the date and the cycle count so I can easily separate it in excel.

The final product I was hoping for consist of a program that upon startup, prints the date + delimiter + cycle count to a new line in a text file (On desktop).

For example,

Tue Oct  7 19:32:33 EDT 2014#776
Tue Oct  8 13:55:02 EDT 2014#776
Tue Oct  8 21:23:16 EDT 2014#777
.
.
.
.
.
Tue Dec 12 07:34:56 EDT 2015#????

I'm having trouble combining the date with the output of the program above.

Thank you in advance

Best Answer

Thanks to @MateusvSzlosek, The following one-liner works:

echo `date`@`system_profiler SPPowerDataType | grep "Cycle Count" | awk '{print $3}'` >> output.txt
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