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From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev)
Subject: Re: "7 deprecated Linux commands you need to stop using - and what to use instead"
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Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> wrote:
> On 15.01.2026 03:14 rbowman rbowman wrote:
>> ifconfig works fine for me and I don't have to read the whole damn ip
>> man page to coax the info out of it.
> 
> Some distributions do not ship it by default, but moved it to a
> separate package.

Some Linux distributions still ship with ifconfig and without ip.
Plus ifconfig is common between different UNIX-type OSs. It looks
like there's still no ip command in the BSDs, for example.

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