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Commands tagged wireless

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Terminal - Commands tagged wireless - 5 results
ip route get 8.8.8.8 2>/dev/null|grep -Eo 'src [0-9.]+'|grep -Eo '[0-9.]+'
2012-10-14 02:06:13
User: intangible
Functions: get grep route
Tags: IP ip address wireless VPN interface wifi route
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Grab IP address on machine with multiple interfaces

Instead of hard-coding in a check to scrape info from ifconfig based on a specific interface, do it in a more portable way.

This works really well if you switch between wired, wireless, bluetooth or even VPN connections. You can get your current IP in a script (since it'll be something like tun0 instead of eth0 or wlan1).

This uses a well known public ip address 8.8.8.8, but it doesn't actually connect to it, it just shows you the route it would take.

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watch -n 1 "awk 'NR==3 {print \"Signal strength = \" \$3 \"00 %\"}''' /proc/net/wireless"
2012-06-07 11:00:56
User: jlaunay
Functions: watch
Tags: status cat watch wireless signals wifi
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Displaying wireless signal on screen in realtime.
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watch -n 1 cat /proc/net/wireless
2012-06-07 10:38:21
User: cantormath
Functions: cat watch
Tags: status cat watch wireless signals wifi
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Displaying wireless signal on screen in realtime.

Values will depend on the driver and the hardware specifics, so you need to refer to your driver documentation for proper interpretation of those values.

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sudo watch arp-scan --interface=wlan0 --localnet
2011-12-30 04:23:00
User: ramaxial
Functions: sudo watch
Tags: bash Linux find list ip address wireless ipv4 arp-scan real-time mac address
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Find & watch active IP and MAC addresses in a wireless network in real time. (IPv4 only)
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nm-tool 2>/dev/null|sed -n '/Type:[ ]*802.11 WiFi/,/IPv4 Settings/{ /State:[ ]*connected/,/IPv4 Settings/{ s/^[ ]*//;/^\*.*Infra/ { s/^*//;s/:.*//;p }}}'
2010-02-02 12:04:12
User: chmouel
Functions: nm sed
Tags: Network wireless network manager
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Get current connected wireless network with nm-tools

Gets only when the state is connected.

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