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|    Computer Nerd Kev to Marco Moock    |
|    Re: "7 deprecated Linux commands you nee    |
|    16 Jan 26 07:53:20    |
   
   From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   Marco Moock 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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