Re: ip address

[Bob Bernstein <poobah@ruptured-duck.com>]

On Fri, 17 Jul 2015, David Wright wrote:

> I think you're better off forgetting about ifconfig 
> and using ip in its place;

Ach du Lieber Himmel! You will have to pry ifconfig 
out of my cold dead fingers!

> that's the direction things are heading.

Of course David I am no one to gainsay your typically 
wise stance on this matter, EXCEPT that other unices 
(I just checked NetBSD, for example) do not have an 
"ip" command but retain our old unix friend and 
companion, ifconfig.

SO, if one's life quest can be fulfilled always 
sitting at a Linux prompt -- AND NO OTHER UNIX -- 
then, in the inimitable words of H. L. Mencken:

"You may be right."

:-)

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