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I know I'm probably late to the party, but I've just discovered that ipconfig is not installed by default from Ubuntu 18.04. When the shell told me "ifconfig not found" I had a flashback of all the good moments with it.

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    Wait what... Really?

    The fuck canonical?!
  • 0
    Should it not be ifconfig? Ipconfig is windows version.
  • 3
    ifconfig is deprecated, use 'ip'
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    @Voxera I know I'm probably late to the party, but I've just discovered that you can't edit rants...

    Yeah sure, ipconfig is for Win. I even wrote the second occurrence right, damn :/
  • 1
    @ddephor correct.
    use
    $ ip
    $ ip address
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    @theKarlisK administering Ubuntu servers is fine, if you keep on track with the changes. For example that ifconfig was deprecated in 2012 and that you should use ip instead ;)
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    Yeah, ifconfig is deprecated. And it wasn't canonical that deprecated it. It was Debian.

    ip addr show
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    Most distros have abandoned ifconfig, but I think you can still install it, or you can do some script to "translate" your commands to the new IP command
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    @strang3quark You just need to install net-tools
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