1 .\" Guus Sliepen - 2001
2 .\" Completed and fixed up by Jean Tourrilhes - 2002
5 .TH IWGETID 8 "7 August 2001" "net-tools" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
10 iwgetid \- Report ESSID, NWID or AP/Cell Address of wireless network
15 .BI "iwgetid " [interface] " [--scheme] [--ap]"
22 is used to find out the NWID, ESSID or AP/Cell Address of the wireless
23 network that is currently used. The information reported is the same
25 .BR iwconfig ", but " iwgetid
26 is easier to integrate in various scripts.
32 of the device, and if the device doesn't have any ESSID it will print
41 This option disables pretty-printing of the information, only the raw
42 ESSID (or NWID, or AP Address) is printed. Also, characters that are
43 not alphanumerics (like space, punctuation and control characters) are
46 The resulting output is a valid Pcmcia scheme identifier (that may be used as an argument of the command
47 .BR "cardctl scheme" ).
48 This format is also ideal when using the result of iwgetid as a
56 Display the MAC address of the Wireless