wifi-password.pl

Show your wifi password. Fast and easy. Inspired by wifi-password - shameless rip-off would be more accurate.

Status:

Why Perl?

Other languages could've been more suitable (bash...) but I wanted to fiddle with Perl and it comes pre-installed with Ubuntu from start.

For fun, I chose Perl.

Installation

Run the following snippet:

curl -o ~/bin/wifi-password.pl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/caramelomartins/wifi-password.pl/master/wifi-password.pl
&& chmod +x ~/.bin/wifi-password.pl

If you don't have ~/bin/ change it to whatever folder you have in your $PATH.

For now that's all there is to it.

Usage

Get password for current wifi:

$ wifi-password.pl

Get password for a specific SSID:

$ wifi-password.pl [SSID]

Requirements

The script relies on the following dependencies - which are usually pre-installed I believe:

• perl 5
• nmcli
• cat
• grep
• sed

Support

As of this moment it was only tested in the following distributions:

• Ubuntu 16.04

Testing in other distributions would be more than welcome.

TODO

• Error handling.
• Easy installation (maybe a bash script).

Contribute

Contributions are more than welcome. Just submit a pull request.

License

MIT