[PATCH 1/1] Adding examples in ip man page on basic use of the ip command.

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@@ -2855,6 +2855,49 @@ can be
  .SS ip xfrm monitor - state monitoring for xfrm objects
  The xfrm objects to monitor can be optionally specified.

+.SH EXAMPLES
+.LP
+To turn on an interface:
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip link set up dev eth0
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+To add an IPv4 address to an interface:
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip address add 141.85.37.42/24 dev eth0
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+To add a default route in the IPv4 routing table using a next hop IP 

address:
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip route add  default via 141.85.37.1
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+Equivalent ways of listing address information for all the interfaces:
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip addr show
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip a s
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip a
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+
  .SH HISTORY
  .B ip
  was written by Alexey N. Kuznetsov and added in Linux 2.2.
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1.7.4.1

On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 14:00 +0200, Alex Juncu wrote:

Although it's customary to put EXAMPLES near the bottom of the page, I
suspect that the same users who are intimidated by the long usage
description are unlikely ever to get this far.  But I may be wrong;
maybe people do specifically look for this section.

Alternately, it may be more helpful to reorder the SYNOPSIS to emphasise
the most commonly used commands.

Ben.

  .SS ip xfrm monitor - state monitoring for xfrm objects
  The xfrm objects to monitor can be optionally specified.

+.SH EXAMPLES
+.LP
+To turn on an interface:
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip link set up dev eth0
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+To add an IPv4 address to an interface:
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip address add 141.85.37.42/24 dev eth0
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+To add a default route in the IPv4 routing table using a next hop IP 
address:
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip route add  default via 141.85.37.1
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+Equivalent ways of listing address information for all the interfaces:
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip addr show
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip a s
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+.RS
+.nf
+.B ip a
+.fi
+.RE
+.LP
+
  .SH HISTORY
  .B ip
  was written by Alexey N. Kuznetsov and added in Linux 2.2.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 14:00:54 +0200
Alex Juncu [off-list ref] wrote:

Simple examples at bottom of page are good, but it is unnecessary
to show how to abbreviate. That just confuses the newbie reading the examples.

Give one example of each of the basic normal tasks. See the git man pages
for good examples.