From 0db70c59e13bd973bd356203d6849f555fd3e66b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Alemayhu Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:41:16 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] man: add examples to ip.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Having some examples in the top level man page might make it a little bit easier for new users to get started. Reused some words / sentences from the existing man pages. Suggested-by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson Signed-off-by: Alexander Alemayhu --- man/man8/ip.8 | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/man8/ip.8 b/man/man8/ip.8 index 8ecb1996..1c5a7419 100644 --- a/man/man8/ip.8 +++ b/man/man8/ip.8 @@ -319,6 +319,34 @@ or, if the objects of this class cannot be listed, Exit status is 0 if command was successful, and 1 if there is a syntax error. If an error was reported by the kernel exit status is 2. +.SH "EXAMPLES" +.PP +ip addr +.RS 4 +Shows addresses assigned to all network interfaces. +.RE +.PP +ip neigh +.RS 4 +Shows the current neighbour table in kernel. +.RE +.PP +ip link set x up +.RS 4 +Bring up interface x. +.RE +.PP +ip link set x down +.RE +.RS 4 +Bring down interface x. +.RE +.PP +ip route +.RS 4 +Show table routes. +.RE + .SH HISTORY .B ip was written by Alexey N. Kuznetsov and added in Linux 2.2.