Bug 120874 – iproute2-051007 - ip doesn't support command shortening anymore

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Jan Minar 2006-01-29 14:48:26 UTC]

ip(8) used to support command shortening, so one could do things like ``ip r'' or ``ip r a default via 10.0.0.2''.  I use it in all my scripts, so now not even the loop device is set up after bootup.  Gosh this was just about the sexiest feature of the FLOSS world.

Example of what should work but doesn't:

$ ip r
Object "r" is unknown, try "ip help".

Instead, one has to say:

$ ip route
10.0.0.0/24 dev eth0  proto kernel  scope link  src 10.0.0.13 
default via 10.0.0.2 dev eth0

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-01-29 14:52:18 UTC]

Reopen with iproute2 version...

[Comment 2 Jan Minar 2006-01-29 15:52:10 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Reopen with iproute2 version...

$  eix iproute | grep Installed:
     Installed:           051007
$ ip -V
ip utility, iproute2-ss051007

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2006-01-29 16:40:16 UTC]

well `ip r` wouldnt work now anyways as there is 'route' and 'rule' ...

[Comment 4 Jan Minar 2006-01-29 17:15:49 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> well `ip r` wouldnt work now anyways as there is 'route' and 'rule' ...

I've seen the shortened versions so many times it didn't occur to me the interface could change.  Is this a feature then?  So that it's clear the syntax is ``ip route'', not ``ip r'', and scripts I write today will work forever without alterations?

I would prefere whatever worked yesterday would work today, the new keywords *addign* to the syntax, not *replacing* parts of it.  E.g.:

    r -> route
    ru -> rule

[Comment 5 SpanKY 2006-01-29 18:00:03 UTC]

looks like a bad example

iproute2-2.6.10.20050112-r1 supports both 'rule' and 'route' but 'ip r' defaults to route as you showed

[Comment 6 SpanKY 2006-01-29 19:10:55 UTC]

aaaaaand this is a bug as newer versions support `ip r` again ;)

upgrade to 2.6.15.20060110