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submitted 5 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/linux@programming.dev

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Still using these obsolete Linux commands? They might be popular from the olden days but perhaps it is time to look for alternatives.

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[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 35 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

They can take ifconfig from my cold, dead hands. I will not learn ip

scp too. What even is an rsync? BS that's what!

[–] death_to_carrots@feddit.org 26 points 5 months ago (2 children)

ifconfig actually uses a deprecated kernel interface and just can't do the things ip can.

[–] Flying_Penguin@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago

Not with that attitude it can't.

[–] KindaABigDyl@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

But I don't need to do those things with ip

[–] vivendi@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

We welcome you in BSD world

[–] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

To be fair, the title is "Deprecated Linux Commands". ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯