Having some examples in the top level man page might make it a little bit easier for new users to get started. Reused some words / sentences from the existing man pages.
Suggested-by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org> Signed-off-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexan...@alemayhu.com> --- This is my first man page patch, hopefully I've done everything correctly. If not please let me know, thanks. man/man8/ip.8 | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8 index 8ecb1996da92..1c5a7419e4fc 100644 --- a/man/man8/ip.8 +++ b/man/man8/ip.8 @@ -319,6 +319,34 @@ or, if the objects of this class cannot be listed, Exit status is 0 if command was successful, and 1 if there is a syntax error. If an error was reported by the kernel exit status is 2. +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.PP +ip addr +.RS 4 +Shows addresses assigned to all network interfaces. +.RE +.PP +ip neigh +.RS 4 +Shows the current neighbour table in kernel. +.RE +.PP +ip link set x up +.RS 4 +Bring up interface x. +.RE +.PP +ip link set x down +.RE +.RS 4 +Bring down interface x. +.RE +.PP +ip route +.RS 4 +Show table routes. +.RE + .SH HISTORY .B ip was written by Alexey N. Kuznetsov and added in Linux 2.2. -- 2.9.3
