Quoting Bob Bernstein (poo...@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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150718015908.GC10052@alum
