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by topranks 3169 days ago
Yeah but please don't.... or at least don't create documentation or guides with the abbreviations.
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To be honest, I didn't even know "addr" was short for address. When I was first taught iproute2 in 2007, I was told that the command was "ip addr" (and I'm fairly sure the very first iproute2 command I ever typed was "ip addr show").