The plakar diff command performs a diff between two snapshots,
without restoring them.
If provided with two snapshot identifiers, the command will perform an inode diff by checking if permissions, ownership or modification date have changed.
If provided with a file argument as third parameter, the command will perform a file diff between the file present in both snapshots without restoring them.
plakar diff [snapshotID] [snapshotID]
plakar diff [snapshotID] [snapshotID] /path/to/file
In this example, two snapshots are compared for inode differences:
$ plakar diff b3 45
- drwxr-xr-x root wheel 2.9 kB 2021-09-26 20:45:08.587949603 +0000 UTC /private/etc/
+ drwxr-xr-x root wheel 2.9 kB 2021-10-06 19:54:55.675866163 +0000 UTC /private/etc/
+ -rw-r--r-- root wheel 0 B 2021-10-06 19:54:55.67585958 +0000 UTC /private/etc/bleh
In this example,
two snapshots have their /private/etc/group file compared:
$ plakar diff b3 a0 /private/etc/group
--- b3bdb2b0-115a-4198-93a4-976edf883eb5:/private/etc/group
+++ a0dee33e-568e-4946-9be3-a987f939a351:/private/etc/group
@@ -145,4 +145,5 @@
com.apple.access_ssh:*:399:
com.apple.access_remote_ae:*:400:
_oahd:*:441:_oahd
+_foobar:*:442:_foobar