Re: ip address

[David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk>]

Quoting 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,

You don't know how much you flatter me.

> 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.

Perfectly correct. I have no idea if linux is leading the van here,
or going off on a separate tack.

> 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."
> 
> :-)

I made a judgment call on the likelihood of the OP being a unix user,
safe in the knowledge that this is in any case a Debian linux list.
(It's left as an exercise for others to work out the proportion of
this list that applies across all unices.)

Cheers,
David.