At<\/p>\n
There is a very neat airport command line program. Starting it with –help will show you the possible options. #airport usually is in \/System\/Library\/PrivateFrameworks\/Apple80211.framework\/Versions\/Current\/Resources my %trans = ( The other helpful option is the -s one: It scans all base stations it can find and displays them. Much better than the gui menu.<\/p>\n Moving this program in the bin folder would be a nice move by apple. Giving it a man page would even be better. But the way it is is certainly much better than nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At \/System\/Library\/PrivateFrameworks\/Apple80211.framework\/Versions\/Current\/Resources\/airport There is a very neat airport command line program. Starting it with –help will show you the possible options. I like specially the -I option to show me the actual strenght of the signal etc in numbers. Not some bars. It also seems to accurate more precisly what is going on. I wrote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,29],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
\n\/System\/Library\/PrivateFrameworks\/Apple80211.framework\/Versions\/Current\/Resources\/airport
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\nI like specially the -I option to show me the actual strenght of the signal etc in numbers. Not some bars. It also
\nseems to accurate more precisly what is going on. I wrote a quick perl wrapper to give me the outputs I care about
\nas a one line:<\/p>\n
\n#!\/usr\/bin\/perl<\/p>\n
\nuse strict;
\nmy $sleep = $ARGV[0] || 3;<\/p>\n
\n \"commQuality\" , \"cQ\",
\n \"rawQuality\" , \"rQ\",
\n \"avgSignalLevel\" , \"sL\" ,
\n \"avgNoiseLevel\" , \"nL\" ,
\n \"lastTxRate\" , \"lR\" ,
\n \"maxRate\" , \"mR\" ,
\n \"Security\" , \"sec:\"
\n );
\nwhile (1){
\n #print \"x\\n\";
\n foreach my $o (`airport -I`){
\n #print \"y $o\\n\";
\n $o =~ \/\\s*([^\\:]+): (.*)\/;
\n my $k = $1;
\n my $v = $2;
\n if ($trans{$k}){
\n print \"$trans{$k} $v \";
\n }
\n #print \"$k -> $v\\n\";
\n }
\n print \"\\n\";
\n sleep ($sleep);
\n }
\n<\/code><\/p>\n