Message-ID: <696ad6ee@news.ausics.net> From: not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) Subject: Re: "7 deprecated Linux commands you need to stop using - and what to use instead" Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc References: <10k93b3$9rp0$1@dont-email.me> <10kackp$3nav$1@paganini.bofh.team> <696961d0@news.ausics.net> <10kd21o$d8o4$1@paganini.bofh.team> User-Agent: tin/2.6.5-20251224 ("Glenury") (Linux/2.4.31 (i586)) NNTP-Posting-Host: news.ausics.net Date: 17 Jan 2026 10:25:19 +1000 Organization: Ausics - https://newsgroups.ausics.net Lines: 39 X-Complaints: abuse@ausics.net Path: csiph.com!news.bbs.nz!news.ausics.net!not-for-mail Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:81220 Marco Moock wrote: > On 16.01.2026 07:53 Computer Nerd Kev wrote: > >> Some Linux distributions still ship with ifconfig and without ip. > > Which one? Tiny Core Linux. >> Plus ifconfig is common between different UNIX-type OSs. > > The command name is, but the options are different. Yeah, of course, but it's for the same purpose of "configure a network interface". > AIX and FreeBSD have -d, Linux doesn't, just for example. Ahh, "ifconfig --help" (GNU Inetutils) gives me: " -d, -p, --dstaddr=ADDR, --peer=ADDR set destination (peer) address to ADDR" But it seems it doesn't match FreeBSD's "-d": "-d Display only the interfaces that are down." https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ifconfig > Various other differences exist, just compare the options listed in the > manpages. Yes, but they're similar in purpose and general behaviour. Such is to be expected between OSs. It's a really dumb argument for omitting it entirely. Better change the "cp" command too in that case because on BSD you don't get the "-b", "-u", etc. options like in GNU Coreutils "cp" that's typical on Linux, so that's different too, and so on... -- __ __ #_ < |\| |< _#