NETPLAN-STATUS(8)

💅 NETPLAN-STATUS(8) — netplan-status, bestie edition 🎀

okay so this is the manual page for netplan-status, straight out of the System Manager's Manual — it lives in section 8 of the netplan fam, and it's the one you call when you wanna know what your network is actually doing rn. let's get into it ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

netplan-status — query networking state of the running system. that's it. that's the vibe check for your network 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

netplan [--debug] status -h|--help

netplan [--debug] status [interface]

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✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

netplan status [interface] goes and queries the current network configuration and displays it in a human-readable format. literally so readable. a whole meal 🍓

You can specify interface to display the status of a specific interface — like, if you only care about one of them, just say so and it'll narrow it down for you 💅

rn, netplan status depends on systemd-networkd as a source of data, and it will try to start it if it's not masked. so like, it needs its source, no cap. if you masked it, that's between you and your choices 🙈

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💜 OPTIONS 💜

• -h, --help — Print basic help. the "what do these flags even do" button 🫶
• --debug — Print debugging output during the process. for when you need to see the receipts 🔥
• -a, --all — Show all interface data including inactive. not just the main characters — the whole cast 👑
• --diff — Analyse and display differences between the current system configuration and network definitions present in the YAML files. The configuration analysed includes IP addresses, routes, MAC addresses, DNS addresses, search domains and missing network interfaces.

The output format is similar to popular diff tools, such diff and git diff. Configuration present only in the system (and therefore missing in the Netplan YAML) will be displayed with a + sign and will be highlighted in green. Configuration present only in Netplan (and therefore missing in the system) will be displayed with a - sign and highlighted in red. The same is applied to network interfaces. green means "system has it, YAML doesn't", red means "YAML has it, system doesn't" — iconique side-by-side energy, iykyk 🌈

• --diff-only — Same as --diff but omits all the information that is not a difference. strictly differences. no filler, no fluff, main character energy only 💀
• --root-dir — Read YAML files from this root instead of /. for when your files live somewhere else and you're like "not me changing the root" 🙈
• --verbose — Show extra information. more lore, more context, more everything ✨
• -f FORMAT, --format FORMAT — Output in machine-readable json or yaml format. for when a robot is reading and not a girlie 🤖

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🎀 SEE ALSO 🎀

netplan(5), netplan-get(8), netplan-ip(8) — the rest of the squad, go say hi 💖

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🌟 AUTHORS 🌟

Danilo Egea Gondolfo (danilo.egea.gondolfo@canonical.com). slay, thank you for your service 🫶

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ngl bestie, if you're about to trust a + or a - in that diff output, remember it's comparing your live system against your YAML — if they disagree, that's the whole point 💅

okay that's the whole page! 🦋 this one came from the System Manager's Manual, tagged NETPLAN-STATUS(8) at the top and bottom (page header and footer both yelling the same section name at you, as manpages do), and that title line was the source + section label, no date attached. go check your network, bestie, you got this 💜✨