man: add examples to ip.8

Having some examples in the top level man page might make it a little bit easier
for new users to get started. Reused some words / sentences from the existing
man pages.

Suggested-by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Alemayhu <alexander@alemayhu.com>
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Alexander Alemayhu 2017-03-12 21:41:16 +01:00 committed by Stephen Hemminger
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@ -319,6 +319,34 @@ or, if the objects of this class cannot be listed,
Exit status is 0 if command was successful, and 1 if there is a syntax error.
If an error was reported by the kernel exit status is 2.
.SH "EXAMPLES"
.PP
ip addr
.RS 4
Shows addresses assigned to all network interfaces.
.RE
.PP
ip neigh
.RS 4
Shows the current neighbour table in kernel.
.RE
.PP
ip link set x up
.RS 4
Bring up interface x.
.RE
.PP
ip link set x down
.RE
.RS 4
Bring down interface x.
.RE
.PP
ip route
.RS 4
Show table routes.
.RE
.SH HISTORY
.B ip
was written by Alexey N. Kuznetsov and added in Linux 2.2.