CentOS

Hi,
When I type ifconfig in CentOS 7 the output shows "ether" for the MAC address but I want it to show as "HWaddr" instead of "ether".
Kindly suggest me the way to modify the output of ifconfig command.

Regards,
Charan

ifconfig | sed 's\ether\HWaddr\g'

ifconfig has been deprecated for more than 10 years. Its replacement is the ip command, specifically ip link show or ip addr show.

Neither uses HWAddr.

Yes I agree, but ifconfig is hardcoded in our application and in CentOS 6 the output shows HWaddr, we want the same to be shown in CentOS 7 also

Then the solution is the one involving sed that was already posted.