From 216aa488d3b33b8d6ddc039643d1bd58871041aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Amaglio <adrian@amaglio.fr>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 13:34:57 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Nicer wifi script

---
 wifi_chooser | 13 +++++++++----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wifi_chooser b/wifi_chooser
index 5ac8bb1..5de0224 100755
--- a/wifi_chooser
+++ b/wifi_chooser
@@ -22,12 +22,17 @@ fi
 notify "Scanning networks in range..."
 nmcli device wifi rescan
 
-ssid=$(nmcli -f IN-USE,SSID,BARS d wifi list | dmenu -l 8 | tr -s '*' ' ' | rev | cut -d ' ' -f 3- | rev | cut -d ' ' -f 2-)
+ssid="$(nmcli -f IN-USE,SSID,BARS d wifi list | dmenu -l 8)" 
+ssid="$(echo "${ssid:2:-5}" | sed 's/^ *//g' | sed 's/ *$//g')"
 
-[ $verb -gt 0 ] && echo ssid: $ssid
+# We get a clean version of SSIDs. It is a fix to connect to wifis that begin or end with spaces
+ssid="$(nmcli -f SSID -m multiline -t -c no d wifi list | grep -F "$ssid")"
+ssid="${ssid:5}"
+
+[ $verb -gt 0 ] && echo "ssid: $ssid"
 [ -z "$ssid" ] && notify "No SSID selected" && exit 1
 
 notify "Connecting to $ssid"
-out="$(nmcli d wifi connect "$ssid" | grep -i error)"
+out="$(nmcli d wifi connect "$ssid" 2>&1 | grep -i error)"
 res="$?"
-[ "$res" -ne 0 ] && notify "Connected :)" || notify "Error connecting :(\n$out"
+[ -z "$out" ] && notify "Connected :)" || notify "Error connecting :(\n$out"