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Puru on August 28, 2020

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Kevin Schweikert •

Instead of ifconfig -a it's better to use the newer command ip a

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pahosler •

ip is useful, but ifconfig is much more readable not to mention after decades of use I tend to use it reflexively.

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cocoonkid •

same here but ifconfig does omit certain informations that ip shows you. I force myself to switch too :-)

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peter279k • • Edited

ifconfig command is too old and it should use ip address command instead.

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Puru •

That's right Kevin. I've updated with ip command. Thanks!

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peter279k •

Just notice that the nmcli command can be added on Networking section.

It can use this to check current network connection, modify network connection information, activate/inactivate specific network connection info and so on :).

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Ian •

A great list! I've started using Docker for projects recently, and this will come in handy.

I've spotted a small typo though:


Remove a package named htop

$ apt remove less

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Puru •

Thanks Ian. Typo fixed 😊

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Omar •

Nice bro , you got them all in one place.

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Lars Moelleken •


strace -s 2048 -p <PID>

or

strace -s 2048 <command>

is also very helpful sometimes ;)

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Dian •

Thank you, it very useful for newbies