[tommieb]

After more than two decades - never knew ip had the --color switch, TIL and thanks! :)

[iforgotpassword]

I really wish there were a unified environment variable to enable colors for everything instead of having a separate one for everything or having to clutter your bashrc with a trillion aliases.

[doubled112]

I decided to clutter the filesystem instead and have my bashrc source a bunch more files.

It helps me, at least.

[jwilk]

Color support was added only in 2015:

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git...

[hddqsb]

And "auto" only added in 2018 (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/network/iproute2/iproute2.git...).

[porbelm]

Same! Thanks

I wasn't used to ip over ifconfig until a few years ago anyway lol