On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:46:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
> thunder@ngforever.de (Thunder from the hill) wrote on 10.06.02 in <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206100808180.6159-100000@hawkeye.luckynet.adm>:
>
> > On Mon, 10 Jun 2002, Helge Hafting wrote:
> > > ls /dev/net
> > > eth0 eth1 eth2 ippp0
> >
> > What is it worth? You have a few more files which you can't do anything
> > with, and ifconfig output is much more greppable etc.
>
> Ifconfig output is *WHAT*?!
>
> Ifconfig output, to be parsed by a script, is one of the shittiest
> interfaces possible.
it may be but you can use 'ip' instead which _is_ much more script
friendly and seems to have at least ifconfig functionality.
j.
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