On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 04:52:14PM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
>> On Fri, 24 Mar 2006, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> As far as ifconfig, ifconfig behaves that way (needing -a to show all
>>> interfaces) on other operating systems as well.  For example, without
>>> arguments, ifconfig on Solaris shows a help message, just as on NetBSD.
>>>     
>>
>> Linux net-tools, FreeBSD, DragonFly, and OpenBSD versions of ifconfig 
>> print all interfaces with no arguments (-a is default).
>>
>>  Jeremy C. Reed
>>   
>
>And -h to ifconfig apparently means something other than "help".
>
>Again, I see no point in the change and good reason not to change, but I
>don't feel strongly enough to have tussle over it.
>

yeah, I think there are some much better things to change, not
sure another way to get the usage/help that comes up with no
arguments and ifconfig

A much more interesting thing to fix would be crontab, so that it
respects EDITOR when VISUAL is set

[ -x "`which vim`" ] && alias vi='vim' && export EDITOR="vim" VISUAL="emacs" \
        && alias crontab='env VISUAL="vi" crontab


besides, wouldn't an output like this be more useful than ifconfig -a

wm0: inet 192.168.80.110 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.80.255
wm0: inet 192.168.80.111 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.80.255
vr0: 
lo0: inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
lo0: inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
lo0: inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3

// George


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