netdev - Re: please add some examples to the ip man page

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Message-ID: <897a47d6-32c5-beef-c8fe-d7020c5956cc@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date:   Thu, 9 Mar 2017 08:17:43 -0700
From:   David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@...mayhu.com>,
        積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@...anni.org>
Cc:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: please add some examples to the ip man page

On 3/9/17 3:56 AM, Alexander Alemayhu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 08, 2017 at 03:17:02PM +0800, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
>> I see.
>> Perhaps on the man page add
>> EXAMPLES
>>    See https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/vrf.txt
>>    https://www.google.com/search?q=ip+linux+command+usage+examples
>> (I thought the latter would be hopeless, but actually found lots!)
>>
> Actual examples in the page would better than links IMO.  git has some
> nice examples in gittutorial(7) and giteveryday(7). Maybe that can be
> good inspiration?

excellent opportunity for an aspiring writer / user to make a
contribution to improve iproute2.

git clone
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/shemminger/iproute2.git
cd iproute2
<make changes>

commit, send to netdev.