Description of problem: I was trying to figure out what's the 'ip' equivalent to ifconfig, which by default (without '-a' switch) shows only active (UP) intefaces. Because 'ip addr show' lists all (even those that are DOWN) interfaces I tried various other switches like: ip addr show UP ip addr show state UP ip addr show label UP ip addr show scope UP non of them worked and neither 'ip addr show help' nor ip-address(8) helped. After a lot of googling I found 'ip addr show up' which works like a charm. Why is that not mentioned in help or man page ? It's similar with 'ip link show up' which is fortunately described in ip-link(8) as: ip link show - display device attributes up only display running interfaces. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): iproute-3.6.0-5.fc18.x86_64 Steps to Reproduce: 1. ip addr show help 2. ip link show help 3. man ip-address Actual results: non of them mentions the 'up' Expected results: $ ip addr show help ip addr {show|save|flush} [ dev STRING ] [ scope SCOPE-ID ] [ to PREFIX ] [ FLAG-LIST ] [ label PATTERN ] [up] $ ip link show help ip link show [ DEVICE | group GROUP ] [up] $ man ip-address ip address show - look at protocol addresses up only display running interfaces.
You're right, this would be nice.
Created attachment 709048 [details] Mention the 'up' argument in documentation Submitted upstream.
iproute-3.6.0-8.fc18 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 18. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/iproute-3.6.0-8.fc18
iproute-3.6.0-8.fc18 has been pushed to the Fedora 18 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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