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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers 'awk' help for script to clean out wireless. Post 302931115 by Lord Lien on Saturday 10th of January 2015 05:45:58 PM
Old 01-10-2015
'awk' help for script to clean out wireless.

I've been working on a script to clean out the wireless connections on my MAC. I know the terminal command to do this (that part is not rocket science Smilie )

So I thought I would have a go at automating this but I'm having trouble with the 'awk' command & the correct context. My code is :=


Code:
#!/bin/sh
# Removes ALL known wireless on that machine
for wireless in `networksetup -listpreferredwirelessnetworks en1 | awk '{ print $0}'`
do
echo Deleting "$wireless"
/usr/sbin/networksetup -removepreferredwirelessnetwork en1 "$wireless"
done
/usr/sbin/networksetup -addpreferredwirelessnetworkatindex en1 "This is a test" 0 WPA2 123456789
exit 0

But the awk command returns every word in the echo & does not pull the line out. I did read some where that %0 should return every line back, bit it does not seem to work for me. Wondering where I was going wrong?
 

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IFCFG(5)						       Network configuration							  IFCFG(5)

NAME
ifcfg-wireless - wireless LAN network interface configuration SYNOPSIS
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-* /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-type-wlan GENERAL
Wireless networks need some additional configuration data compared to ethernet ones. Therefore additional variables for ifcfg files were introduced. All wireless LAN specific variables are described in the ifcfg template file /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg.template. It is pos- sible to configure more than one wireless network accepted for association. To achieve this add suffix _1 to all wireless variables for the second network, _2 for the this, and so on. Example: WIRELESS_ESSID_1="second_net" You can have up to ten wireless networks configured. Some wireless variables are not applicable to a single wireless network but are global to the interface. The description of the variable points this out. BUGS
Please report bugs at <http://www.suse.de/feedback> AUTHOR
Christian Zoz <zoz@suse.de> -- ifup script Michal Svec <msvec@suse.cz> -- ifup script Bjoern Jacke -- ifup script Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@suse.de> -- ifup manual page Michal Ludvig <mludvig@suse.cz> -- tunnel support Joachim Gleissner <jg@suse.de> -- wireless support SEE ALSO
ifup(8). sysconfig December 2005 IFCFG(5)
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