Re: Bash script for wireless

[MCStol <mcs7@xs4all.nl>]

Isolate arbitrary output ?
You may want to consider using (g)awk and sed.

http://hal.csd.auth.gr/thelug/faqs/gawk_toc.html#SEC1
http://www.gnu.org/software/sed/manual/html_chapter/sed_toc.html

best regards,
Maarten C. Stol


John O'Hagan wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Calling all scripting experts! I'm trying to write a script which will present 
> a list of available wireless networks as a menu, from which the user can 
> select one to connect to.
>
> I want to take selected parts of the output of `iwlist scan` as variables, but 
> have been unable to find out how to do this in online scripting guides. I 
> know how to use grep etc. to find known bits of output, but not how to 
> isolate arbitrary output, for example ESSID names.
>
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>
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