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Re: Change default PATH for Jessie / wheezy+1



On 2012-08-08 13:38:36 +0200, Alberto Fuentes wrote:
> [extra non usuful comments]
> Those commands without root permissions are not dangerous. ifconfig seems
> the most obvious that a non expert would want to run. ipconfig/ifconfig eth0
> are easy to run/remember.
> 
> ip addr show eth0 is not. ip has too many switches/options. Its nice and its
> my tool of choice as an admin, but i would not say is user friendly and i
> understand it will be hard to kill (if it is ever killed)

And ip is not standard (not present on every Linux systems), whereas
I don't know any system without ifconfig.

Anyway it's up to the user to choose the commands he wants.

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