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				You just need to use it more often and your brain will start to get better at parsing the output of `ip a` automatically.
Also there is the `-c` flag (on most implementations) to highlight relevant parts of the output with colors. - 
				
				I entirely get what you mean but to be honest, my brain has already adapted to ip a because it's faster 😅
 
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What the actual fuck?!!! ifconfig: command not found even after installing net-tools, just wtf
Who the fuck thought replacing nicely formated output of ifconfig with that garbage that "ip a" shits out was a good idea?!!
I will hate whoever did that until they burn in hell
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