How to get only %idle value in Sar report

[Chandan Kumar_1]

Hi,

When I do sar it gives me %usr, %sys, %wio & %idle. However, I am looking for some trick which will give me only %idle value. Please let me know what argument I should pass to get only %idle value of sar report.

Thanks

[Michael Steele_2]

sar -u 5 5 | awk '{ print $5 }'

[Raj D.]

Chandan,
Check this out, with time and %value:

# sar -u 5 5 | perl -lnae 'print "$F[0] $F[4]"'

Cheers,
Raj.