Script to toggle WiFi from keyboard for OS X

Now that I have a machine (Macbook Air) with decent battery life, I decided to take it a step further and see if I could extend it by staying offline as much as possible. This is an even better idea considering how much faster my Air attaches to the network. So I wrote a little bash script that toggles the wifi power state. I activate it using Quicksilver and have setup the script to be the default result for "w". If you want to use it, just make sure to replace the line NET_DEVICE="en0" with whatever label your WiFi device is given. For example, it is en1 on my old Macbook because en0 is the wired connection.

#!/bin/bash

NET_DEVICE="en0"
WIFI_STATE=`ifconfig $NET_DEVICE | grep status | cut -d ' ' -f2`


if [ $WIFI_STATE = "inactive" ]
then 
    echo "$NET_DEVICE is $WIFI_STATE, enabling"
    networksetup -setairportpower $NET_DEVICE on
else
    if [ $WIFI_STATE = "active" ]
    then
        echo "$NET_DEVICE is $WIFI_STATE, disabling"
        networksetup -setairportpower $NET_DEVICE off
    fi
fi