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Subject: Re: How to find ESSID & signal strength
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@adurom.com>
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Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 13:00:57 +0200
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On Wed, 2013-04-24 at 13:21 +0300, Kalle Valo wrote:

> I think someone should fork iw which would only provide tabular output
> for shell scripts. Shouldn't be too hard, the most difficult part is to
> make sure that the output format is extensible when adding new features.

You don't even need to fork, just send me patches :-)

Something like a --batch or --script option (to iw) would probably do
it. We'd have to teach each command to be able to do it though, so we'd
want to have some registration about whether a command is already
converted and disallow the other ones, I guess.

johannes