How to specify ssid to ifconfig if it begins with '0x'?

Adam Vande More amvandemore at gmail.com
Sat May 7 22:00:18 UTC 2011


On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Yuri <yuri at rawbw.com> wrote:
>
>> ifconfig(8) says:
>> The SSID is a string up to 32 characters in length and may be specified as
>> either a normal string or in hexadecimal when preceded by ‘0x’.
>>
>> But what if ssid actually begins with ASCII 0x?
>> 'ifconfig wlan0 list scan' shows that my ssid is 0x000. Specifying "ssid
>> \\0x000" doesn't help. How to specify SSID beginning with 0x?
>>
>
> 0xNUL79NULNULNUL
>

err, 0x4879484848

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Adam Vande More


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