On January 5, 2006 09:39 am, Andrew Porter wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 00:59 +1100, John O'Hagan wrote:
> > On Wed, 4 Jan 2006 02:26 am, Johannes Zarl wrote:
> > In the end I used gawk with ":" as a field
> > separator to extract them:
> >
> > networks=$(iwlist eth1 scan | grep ESSID | gawk -F: '{ print $2 }')
>
> This can be optimised to -
>
> networks=$(iwlist eth1 scan | gawk -F: '/ESSID/ { print $2 }')
Prehaps would should use a:
INTERFACE=eth1
networks=$(iwlist $INTERFACE scan | gawk -F: '/ESSID/ { print $2 }')
So people can easily change the interface.
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