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Re: Default behaviour of 'ifconfig'



>> I normally use -_ when I want a deliberately erroneous flag to
>> provoke a usage message.  I don't know of any shell under which that
>> needs escaping.
> Better yet, just don't put any arguments at all.

> Oh, wait.  That's where we came in to this discussion.  :-)

Yeah. :-)  When it works, yes, no args is better yet.

Guess why I prefer the "no args = usage message" behaviour. :)

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