Re: How to find ESSID & signal strength

[Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>]

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