CentOS 7 Linux Minimal Install – ifconfig: command not found (let’s use ip instead)

As someone who doesn’t closely follow what’s happening with Linux tools, I recently tried a minimal CentOS 7 install, and found out by chance that a command I use a lot on Windows has been deprecated in a number of Linux releases.

Not having run into this before, my first thought was to see if it was in the core repos.

yum provides ifconfig

ifconfig is part of the net-tools package

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