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find current wifi-password in mac
#!/usr/bin/env sh
# https://github.com/rauchg/wifi-password
version="0.1.0"
# locate airport(1)
airport="/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Versions/Current/Resources/airport"
if [ ! -f $airport ]; then
echo "ERROR: Can't find \`airport\` CLI program at \"$airport\"."
exit 1
fi
# by default we are verbose (unless non-tty)
if [ -t 1 ]; then
verbose=1
else
verbose=
fi
# usage info
usage() {
cat <<EOF
Usage: wifi-password [options] [ssid]
Options:
-q, --quiet Only output the password.
-V, --version Output version
-h, --help This message.
-- End of options
EOF
}
# parse options
while [[ "$1" =~ ^- && ! "$1" == "--" ]]; do
case $1 in
-V | --version )
echo $version
exit
;;
-q | --quiet )
verbose=
;;
-h | --help )
usage
exit
;;
esac
shift
done
if [[ "$1" == "--" ]]; then shift; fi
# merge args for SSIDs with spaces
args="$@"
# check for user-provided ssid
if [ "" != "$args" ]; then
ssid="$@"
else
# get current ssid
ssid="`$airport -I | awk '/ SSID/ {print substr($0, index($0, $2))}'`"
if [ "$ssid" = "" ]; then
echo "ERROR: Could not retrieve current SSID. Are you connected?" >&2
exit 1
fi
fi
# warn user about keychain dialog
if [ $verbose ]; then
echo ""
echo "\033[90m … getting password for \"$ssid\". \033[39m"
echo "\033[90m … keychain prompt incoming. \033[39m"
fi
sleep 2
# source: http://blog.macromates.com/2006/keychain-access-from-shell/
pwd="`security find-generic-password -D 'AirPort network password' -ga \"$ssid\" 2>&1 >/dev/null`"
if [[ $pwd =~ "could" ]]; then
echo "ERROR: Could not find SSID \"$ssid\"" >&2
exit 1
fi
# clean up password
pwd=$(echo "$pwd" | sed -e "s/^.*\"\(.*\)\".*$/\1/")
if [ "" == "$pwd" ]; then
echo "ERROR: Could not get password. Did you enter your Keychain credentials?" >&2
exit 1
fi
# print
if [ $verbose ]; then
echo "\033[96m ✓ \"$pwd\" \033[39m"
echo ""
else
echo $pwd
fi
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keidarcy commented May 2, 2022

curl -s 'https://gist.githubusercontent.com/keidarcy/da0adc30aac5259cba70d6774b40d568/raw/88a794d35dbb0217b0c939090cfa693a6fa4da6f/wifi-password.sh' | sh

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