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Toggle WiFi on and off from the command line
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# simple commands to (dis)connect from wifi network | |
# docker-machine and docker are unable to handle the changing ip addresses :( | |
# but once, disconnect and reconnect everything is happy in paradise :) | |
wifi_off() { | |
netsh wlan show interfaces > /tmp/wifi_status | |
status=$(awk -F: '/State/ {gsub(/^ *| *$/, "", $2); print$2; }' /tmp/wifi_status) | |
name=$(awk -F: '/Name/ { gsub(/^ *| *$/, "", $2); print$2; }' /tmp/wifi_status) | |
if [ "$status" = "connected" ]; then | |
netsh wlan disconnect interface="$name" | |
fi | |
} | |
wifi_on() { | |
netsh wlan show interfaces > /tmp/wifi_status | |
status=$(awk -F: '/State/ {gsub(/^ *| *$/, "", $2); print$2; }' /tmp/wifi_status) | |
name=$(awk -F: '/Name/ { gsub(/^ *| *$/, "", $2); print$2; }' /tmp/wifi_status) | |
if [ "$status" = "disconnected" ]; then | |
netsh wlan show networks > /tmp/wifi_nets | |
grep -E 'one|two|three' /tmp/wifi_nets > /tmp/known_hotspots | |
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then | |
ssid=$(sed 's/^[^:]*: //' /tmp/known_hotspots) | |
netsh wlan connect Name="$ssid" SSID="$ssid" interface="$name" | |
else | |
echo 'No known hotspots to connect' | |
fi | |
fi | |
} | |
wifi() { | |
case $1 in | |
on) wifi_on | |
;; | |
off) wifi_off | |
;; | |
*) echo 'Usage: wifi [on|off]' | |
;; | |
esac | |
} |
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