[Toybox] complaining about 'ifconfig' - better use 'ip'

Bastian Bittorf bittorf at bluebottle.com
Fri Apr 5 23:40:10 PDT 2013


* Isaac Dunham <idunham at lavabit.com> [06.04.2013 08:22]:
> It appears that someone just split out the help for each subcommand.
> But you had better include manpages for each of the ones you want in your total...which is at least 
> ip ip-address ip-route ip-neighbor ip-link

bastian at box:~$ for F in ifconfig route arp netstat; do man $F; done | wc -c
35308
bastian at box:~$ for F in ip-address ip-route ip-neighbour ip-link; do man $F; done | wc -c
35337

but really, i dont see the point to argue about lines or bytes, when ip
can do a lot more and please consider, that all 'ip'-commands share the same
syntax so if you know one, you can also work with another (not possible
with net-tools).

bye, bastian



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