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Re: new options for ifconfig



Sorry, this will not go in.  It is not needed.  Use the tools around
you to parse the output.

> I wrote the following patch for ifconfig. It adds the three new options
> -ip, -bc and -nm to print out _only_ an interface's IP address,
> broadcast address or netmask. This makes it _much_ easier for shell
> scripts etc. to find out these values. I don't know if this is cleanly
> integrated into ifconfig, but I think you can recognize the intention.