On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Mauro Santos <registo.maill...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07-06-2011 22:46, Patrick Burroughs wrote: > >> The new replacement for ifconfig is 'ip'; 'ip link show' is equivalent >> to the old 'ifconfig', without arguments. > > I don't see the current assigned IP when doing 'ip link show' so I don't > see how that is equivalent to using only ifconfig without arguments. > > As a side note, at first glance it seems 'ip' needs a lot more typing > than ifconfig needs, at least for the stuff I use more often.
You should use just use "ip addr" rather than "ifconfig" (which saves you one character ;-) ). -t
