podman-container-diff - Inspect changes on a container's filesystem
Contents
Description
Displays changes on a container's filesystem. The container is compared to its parent layer or the second
argument when given.
The output is prefixed with the following symbols:
┌────────┬──────────────────────────────────┐
│ Symbol │ Description │
├────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│ A │ A file or directory was added. │
├────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│ D │ A file or directory was deleted. │
├────────┼──────────────────────────────────┤
│ C │ A file or directory was changed. │
└────────┴──────────────────────────────────┘
Example
# podman container diff container1
C /usr
C /usr/local
C /usr/local/bin
A /usr/local/bin/docker-entrypoint.sh
$ podman container diff --format json container1 container2
{
"added": [
"/test"
]
}
History
July 2021, Originally compiled by Paul Holzinger pholzing@redhat.com ⟨mailto:pholzing@redhat.com⟩
podman-container-diff(1)
Name
podman-container-diff - Inspect changes on a container's filesystem
Options
--format
Alter the output into a different format. The only valid format for podmancontainerdiff is json.
--latest,-l
Instead of providing the container name or ID, use the last created container. Note: the last started
container can be from other users of Podman on the host machine. (This option is not available with the
remote Podman client, including Mac and Windows (excluding WSL2) machines)
See Also
podman(1), podman-container(1)
Synopsis
podmancontainerdiff [options] container [container]
