Margie's Tech Blog: Linux: Using whereis to find ifconfig

Friday, January 28, 2011

Linux: Using whereis to find ifconfig

If something isn't in default path you still may be able to find it with whereis:



$ ifconfig

bash: ifconfig: command not found

$ whereis ifconfig

ifconfig: /sbin/ifconfig /usr/share/man/man8/ifconfig.8.gz

$ /sbin/ifconfig

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr ...

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