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Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:39:17 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To: Alex Juncu <ajuncu@...acom.com>
Cc: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Adding examples in ip man page on basic use of the
ip command.
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:00:54 +0200
Alex Juncu <ajuncu@...acom.com> wrote:
> ---
> man/man8/ip.8 | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8
> index a20eca7..99c8953 100644
> --- a/man/man8/ip.8
> +++ b/man/man8/ip.8
> @@ -2855,6 +2855,49 @@ can be
> .SS ip xfrm monitor - state monitoring for xfrm objects
> The xfrm objects to monitor can be optionally specified.
>
> +.SH EXAMPLES
> +.LP
> +To turn on an interface:
> +.RS
> +.nf
> +.B ip link set up dev eth0
> +.fi
> +.RE
> +.LP
> +To add an IPv4 address to an interface:
> +.RS
> +.nf
> +.B ip address add 141.85.37.42/24 dev eth0
> +.fi
> +.RE
> +.LP
> +To add a default route in the IPv4 routing table using a next hop IP
> address:
> +.RS
> +.nf
> +.B ip route add default via 141.85.37.1
> +.fi
> +.RE
> +.LP
> +Equivalent ways of listing address information for all the interfaces:
> +.RS
> +.nf
> +.B ip addr show
> +.fi
> +.RE
> +.LP
> +.RS
> +.nf
> +.B ip a s
> +.fi
> +.RE
> +.LP
> +.RS
> +.nf
> +.B ip a
> +.fi
> +.RE
> +.LP
> +
Simple examples at bottom of page are good, but it is unnecessary
to show how to abbreviate. That just confuses the newbie reading the examples.
Give one example of each of the basic normal tasks. See the git man pages
for good examples.
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