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use-wifi.rb
#!/usr/bin/env ruby
def wifi_connect(wifi, sid, pw)
out = `networksetup -setairportnetwork #{wifi} #{sid} #{pw}`
puts out
!(out =~ /could not find/i)
end
sid, pw = ARGV[0..1]
(wifi_connect("en0", sid, pw) and exit 0) while 1
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Cool stuff, am using this now.

I don't know ruby though... Would it be easy to make the script running permanently (just in the shell, not thinking about a daemon, etc) so that it would reconnect automatically after a disconnect (sleep, phone to far away etc)?

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