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replacement for airport wifi scanning
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wifi
system_profiler SPAirPortDataType | awk '
BEGIN { printf "%-30s %-10s %-5s\n", "SSID", "Channel", "Signal" }
/Other Local Wi-Fi Networks:/ { start = 1; next }
/:/ {
if (start == 0 ) { next }
if (block == 0) {
ssid = $0
gsub(":", "", ssid)
gsub(/^ +/, "", ssid)
gsub(/ /, "", ssid)
block = 1
}
}
/Channel/ { channel = $2 }
/Signal/ { signal = $4 }
/Signal/ {
printf "%-30s %-10s %-5s\n", ssid, channel, signal
block = 0
}' | sort -k3nr
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SSID                           Channel    Signal
smithluna                      48         -64
BonoNetwork                    153        -67
Luluhome                       6          -67
GTZ                            2          -68
1565Greenwich                  6          -69
DunkinDonuts                   8          -69
Wifi123                        6          -69

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