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macOS command-line tools you might not know about

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2039 points Gadiguibou | 2 comments | 27 Jun 23 12:08 UTC | HN request time: 0.57s | source
1. semanticist ◴[27 Jun 23 13:28 UTC] No.36492428[source]▶

  /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/A/Resources/airport
I set an alias in my shell so this is just 'airport', lets you interact with the wifi settings - I particularly like 'airport -s' for doing a scan of the local wifi networks, since it shows signal strength and channel information right there, which is helpful when troubleshooting.
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2. lloeki ◴[27 Jun 23 15:00 UTC] No.36493859[source]▶
It also separates 2.4GHz and 5.0GHz bands and shows security details (which matters sometimes e.g band steering or automatic same-SSID signal-strength-based AP selection doesn't work)