OSTREE-ADMIN-CONFIG-DIFF(1)

💅 ostree-admin-config-diff

okay bestie, welcome to the OSTREE ADMIN CONFIG corner of the manual pages 🎀 this one is short, sweet, and honestly kind of iconic — it's the "what did u change in /etc" detector. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

ostree-admin-config-diff — diff current /etc configuration versus default 🦋

like, it's literally a vibe check for your config directory. no cap.

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✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

ostree admin config-diff [OPTIONS...]

that's it. that's the whole thing. slay 💅

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🔥 DESCRIPTION 🔥

so here's what it does, bestie: it prints the differences between the current /etc directory and the default configuration in /usr/etc. compare and contrast era fr fr 🌈

and the output is prefixed so you can tell at a glance what happened to each file:

• newly added files — meaning files that are present in /etc but not in /usr/etc — get prefixed with 'A' 🌱
• modified files get prefixed with 'M' ✏️
• deleted files get prefixed with 'D' 💀

three little letters, three whole stories. it's giving detective energy 🔍

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🫶 OPTIONS 🫶

• --os="STATEROOT" — use a different operating system stateroot than the current one. yeah, you heard her — if you've got more than one stateroot in your life (main character energy 👑), this is how you point at a different one instead of just vibing with whatever's current.

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🌟 EXAMPLE 🌟

run it plain and simple like this, gorgeous:

$ ostree admin config-diff

and you'll get something like:

            M   shadow
            A   example.txt

see that? shadow is modified (M) and example.txt is brand new (A). iconic. the diff is diffing. 💖

ngl this is one of those commands u run and immediately feel like a sysadmin genius. no notes. 🧚

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🎀 bye bestie 🎀

that's the whole page, and yes it really was that short — this one lives under the OSTREE ADMIN CONFIG banner (the nearly-empty little footer at the bottom is literally just the page name again, no extra lore, we checked 🙈). go forth, diff ur configs, and remember: /etc is temporary but the vibes are forever 💜🌸🦋