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Re: Default behaviour of 'ifconfig'



On Fri 03 Dec 2010 at 10:01:50 AM +0100, Marc Balmer wrote:
>A cursory check on the Unix systems I run, including some Linux boxen,
>revealed that all of them but NetBSD have 'ifconfig', when called
>without arguments, default to the behaviour of 'ifconfig -a', which
>seems both natural and handy to me.
>
>Is there a particular reason NetBSD does not do this?  If the only
>reason is "lack of diff" I am more than willing to do the work.

I vote the default behavior be -l 

-George


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