List Available Wifi Networks and Signal Strength
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Thursday, April 30th, 2015Last modified:
Thursday, April 30th, 2015List the SSID, channel, and signal strength of available wifi hotspots in the Linux
iw dev wlan0 scan | grep 'SSID\|dB\|channel
Outputs something like
signal: -32.00 dBm SSID: coffeeshop DS Parameter set: channel 2 * primary channel: 2 * secondary channel offset: no secondary * STA channel width: 20 MHz signal: -52.00 dBm SSID: DS Parameter set: channel 1 Power constraint: 0 dB * primary channel: 1 * secondary channel offset: no secondary * STA channel width: 20 MHz Channels [1 - 11] @ 27 dBm signal: 4.00 dBm SSID: \x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00 DS Parameter set: channel 1 * primary channel: 1 * secondary channel offset: no secondary * STA channel width: 20 MHz signal: -32.00 dBm SSID: someguyslaptop DS Parameter set: channel 1 * primary channel: 1 * secondary channel offset: no secondary * STA channel width: 20 MHz signal: -32.00 dBm SSID: bookshop DS Parameter set: channel 1 Channels [1 - 11] @ 36 dBm * primary channel: 1 * secondary channel offset: no secondary * STA channel width: 20 MHz
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