NICINFO(1p)

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version 2.33 · 3 versions
, in debian bookworm, ubuntu jammy

💖 NICINFO(1p) 💖

okay so bestie, this is nicinfo from the User Contributed Perl Documentation (iykyk, that's the 1p vibe), and it's literally just here to tell you everything about the network interfaces chilling in your system. no cap. let's go 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

nicinfo — print information about network interfaces 🌈

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

  nicinfo [ --ethernet ] [ --wifi ] [ --iface <iface> ]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the way this works: this script detects the network interfaces present in your system and then prints out, for each and every interface, its driver, its interface type, its bus, its mac address, and a description. that's the whole main character energy of it. every interface gets its little info card 💅

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • --iface <iface> — detect and print info for the one interface whose kernel name is <iface>. examples of <iface> are "eth0", "ath0" and "wlan0". just the one, bestie, not the whole squad 🎯
  • --ethernet — detect only ethernet devices, no wireless ones allowed at this party 🍓
  • --wifi — detect only wireless devices, ethernet besties can sit this one out 📶

💜 AUTHOR 💜

Kel Modderman, <kel@otaku42.de> — iconic behavior, honestly 🫶

Copyright (C) 2007 - 2010 by Kel Modderman

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this package; if not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses>

⚠️ okay so real talk for a sec: on Debian GNU/Linux systems, the text of the GPL-2 license can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2. go read it, it's giving legally binding 💀

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one shipped as part of perl v5.28.1, dated 2019-01-31 (yes, it's an oldie but a goodie, and it still ate). stay nosy about your network interfaces, mwah 💋✨

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