I stumbled across a photo in our Flickr group that really peaked my curiosity. Apparently apple has shipped a binary that lets you view your wireless info, as well as wireless access point information in the terminal. I had no Idea that this existed, so I asked theshizabox in his comments to fill me in. He was nice enough to pass along the information, so I thought I would post it here.
The binary resides in this location.
/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/sbin/airport
In order to use the ‘airport’ command from anywhere in the terminal you need to create a link to it. You can do it by copying and pasting this code into your terminal.
sudo ln -s /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport /usr/sbin/airport
Now for the fun.
You can use the airport command to do a number of things, and you can get the information by typing. ‘airport -h’. This will give you the help file. The most notable things you can use is ‘airport -s’ which will scan for all the wireless networks in your area, and ‘airport -I’ which will give you a listing of information about the wireless network you are connected to.
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