I verified this on MacOS Ventura. I am several versions behind lol. One concern I have is that the command hangs. Can other users test this and provide feedback?

It doesn't hang, it takes a few seconds to complete

It may just be my machine. I will test it on another one I have at home.

im running sonoma 14.6.1 on an m1 air 8gb and the command takes about 3.7s to complete.
however both commands seem to run fine on my machine, as soon as i fix the error with the misplaced )" in line 27.

@Theoreticallyhugo - on macOS 14 Sonoma the networksetup -getairportnetwork does work, but not on macOS 15 Sequoia, it just answers:

time networksetup -getairportnetwork en0
You are not associated with an AirPort network.
user=0.01s system=0.01s cpu=45% total=0.036

And you'll get that string in your tmux statusbar, which is not that useful.
Hence the need for a different solution in Sequoia

i see the issue, however im curious. does system profiler also have the significant delay on sequoia?
i would think that making an OS check and using the faster command based on that may be an idea.

i see the issue, however im curious. does system profiler also have the significant delay on sequoia? i would think that making an OS check and using the faster command based on that may be an idea.

A complete system_profiler run on Sequoia (and on my M3 Pro MBP) takes 12,80 seconds
If run for only SPAirPortDataType system_profiler SPAirPortDataType it takes 0,09 seconds

If I may chime in, system_profiler SPAirPortDataType takes roughly 3 seconds on my machine (MBA M2) running Sequoia, which is just too much.
I wonder if we can achieve the same behavior via another command.
From my very limited testing, networksetup -listpreferredwirelessnetworks en0 seems to output the connected Wifi's SSID at the top of the list. It would then be a matter of formatting the output. If others can also replicate this behavior, it could be worth pursuing this route.

EDIT:
Found that ipconfig getsummary en0 | awk -F ' SSID : ' '/ SSID : / {print $2}' also works.
Credit: FelixKratz/SketchyBar#616 (comment)

@dot-1q s ipconfig based command works very quickly on Sonoma. if that also works on Sequoia, i'd say that it's the command to go with.

If I may chime in, system_profiler SPAirPortDataType takes roughly 3 seconds on my machine (MBA M2) running Sequoia, which is just too much. I wonder if we can achieve the same behavior via another command. From my very limited testing, networksetup -listpreferredwirelessnetworks en0 seems to output the connected Wifi's SSID at the top of the list. It would then be a matter of formatting the output. If others can also replicate this behavior, it could be worth pursuing this route.

EDIT: Found that ipconfig getsummary en0 | awk -F ' SSID : ' '/ SSID : / {print $2}' also works. Credit: FelixKratz/SketchyBar#616 (comment)

yay its my issue

The system_profiler way (the one in my patch) works for both macOS14 and macOS15 whereas the ipconfig getsummary en0 only works on macOS15...

@jby I'm running Sonoma 14.6.1 and ipconfig getsummary en0 | awk -F ' SSID : ' '/ SSID : / {print $2}' gets the right output very quickly

The system_profiler way (the one in my patch) works for both macOS14 and macOS15 whereas the ipconfig getsummary en0 only works on macOS15...

The ipconfig command comes with macOS by default if im not mistaken, so it works with both macOS14 & 15

@jby I'm running Sonoma 14.6.1 and ipconfig getsummary en0 | awk -F ' SSID : ' '/ SSID : / {print $2}' gets the right output very quickly

Ok

@dot-1q s ipconfig based command works very quickly on Sonoma. if that also works on Sequoia, i'd say that it's the command to go with.

I agree. It also works quickly for me on 13.4 (Ventura). @jby , if you would like to edit the PR to use that command, I'll get it merged ASAP. Thank you everyone!

@ethancedwards8 - updated!