Linux wireless scanning local broadcast SSID list via CLI

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scanning for list of available wireless networks

using iwconfig 

 iwlist wlan0 scan

using wpa_cli 

 #wpa_cli -i wlan0 scan
 #wpa_cli -i wlan0 scan_results
      • wpa_cli can be run in interactive mode 
 #wpa_cli
 >scan
 >scan_results
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