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What useful functions do you know like ipconfig? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 1 day ago by sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.ca

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Doesnt have to be internet related, just useful shtuffs

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[–] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wat do they do?

[–] tal@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not at a Linux machine at the moment, but ip a is probably short for "ip addr", which shows the local machine's IP address with iproute2 (historically, one would have used OP's ifconfig).

I dunno -d off the top of my head, but du -h shows, using "human readable units"

like "M" for megabyte, etc, the size of all the files below each directory starting at the current one. It pairs well with sort -h, which can sort those units

du -h | sort -h is a nice way to get an overview of what is eating up your disk space.

[–] 667@lemmy.radio 3 points 1 day ago

I managed to find this about ip and its various switches: https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man8/ip.8.html