List Available Wireless Networks from Command Line

Question

I'm currently trying to do some physical debugging with one of our devices. It would be very useful to be able to use a command to output a list of available wireless networks to the command line or to a file (which I could then run a diff on later). Is there a way to do this in Windows 7?

Answer 1

Try NetShell.

The command netsh wlan show networks should work for you.

You can save output to a text file by using redirection like so:

netsh wlan show networks > somefile.txt