Re: Default behaviour of 'ifconfig'

[Anders Magnusson <ragge%ludd.ltu.se@localhost>]

On 12/03/2010 07:56 PM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Dec 2010 13:49:45 -0500 (EST)
> der Mouse<mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>  wrote:
>    
> > I normally use -_ when I want a deliberately erroneous flag to provoke
> > a usage message.  I don't know of any shell under which that needs
> > escaping.
> >      
> Better yet, just don't put any arguments at all.
>
> Oh, wait.  That's where we came in to this discussion.  :-)
>
> Seriously, that's why I like the behaviour of commands like this that
> give a usage message when I don't type any arguments.  That way I can
> run the command, look at the usage then hit the up arrow and add my
> arguments without having to backspace.
>    
so.... does it apply to all commands?

% ls
usage: ls [-ABCFGHILPRSTUWZabcdfghiklmnopqrstuwx1] [-D format] [file ...]

:-)

...which means that I would like to be able to use ifconfig without args 
as in Linux,
just because I'm lazy typing.

-- Ragge