$sudo iwlist wlan0 scanning | egrep 'Cell |Encryption|Quality|Last beacon|ESSID'
It’s the combination of sudo
(run as root, do privileged operations), iwlist wlan0 scanning
(produce some output on STDOUT), the pipe symbol “|” (connecting STDOUT of the command(s) to the left to the STDIN of the process on the right), and an egrep
command with a “single quoted” (to prevent the shell from interpreting the “|” characters) Regular Expression to filter STDIN. See man bash
, man sudo
, man iwlist
, man egrep
, and man re_format
for details.