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Lucas W
Asked: 2018-07-07 10:13:40 +0800 CST

Get Network Manager name for devices from command line

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Network Manager has long names for ethernet devices in parentheses: eth0 might be shown as Ethernet Networks (Intel Ethernet Connection I217-LM) in the dropdown menu.

Is there a way to list these names from the command line (using nmcli?)- or even better also show the ifconfig name for them in the same output?

This is using 16.04 with nmcli 1.2.6.

network-manager

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  1. Best Answer

    The comments above got me far enough to be able to figure out the answer:

    $ nmcli -t -f GENERAL.PRODUCT,GENERAL.DEVICE device show
GENERAL.PRODUCT:Ethernet Connection I217-LM
GENERAL.DEVICE:eth0
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