bash: ifconfig: command not found

bash: ifconfig: command not found

This is a very common error which lot of us might have encountered for commands like ifconfig,insmod,modprobe etc.
The error does not mean that the system does not have the command, it just means that these commands are placed in the folder /sbin and only superusers are supposed to execute the commands in the folder /sbin.

All the other commands that we are allowed to execute with as normal users are placed in the folder /bin.
Thus to get around this error add sudo before the command. i.e.

sudo ifconfig

Note that adding sudo will only work if the user has the permission to execute sudo i.e. has the admin rights.