MATE Command Applet - '#' being shown instead of output

Question

I'm using the Command Applet 1.16.0 in MATE to run a bash command -

upower -d | grep -m1 "percentage" | awk '{print $2}'

Instead of showing the output I see in the terminal (battery percentage), it just shows a #

Can I not pipe commands in this applet, or am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

You can do it like this:

bash -c "upower -d | grep -m1 "percentage" | awk '{print $2}'".

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