--- title: "diff" description: "The diff command description and usage" keywords: "list, changed, files, container" --- <!-- This file is maintained within the docker/docker Github repository at https://github.com/docker/docker/. Make all pull requests against that repo. If you see this file in another repository, consider it read-only there, as it will periodically be overwritten by the definitive file. Pull requests which include edits to this file in other repositories will be rejected. --> # diff ```markdown Usage: docker diff CONTAINER Inspect changes on a container's filesystem Options: --help Print usage ``` List the changed files and directories in a container᾿s filesystem There are 3 events that are listed in the `diff`: 1. `A` - Add 2. `D` - Delete 3. `C` - Change For example: $ docker diff 7bb0e258aefe C /dev A /dev/kmsg C /etc A /etc/mtab A /go A /go/src A /go/src/github.com A /go/src/github.com/docker A /go/src/github.com/docker/docker A /go/src/github.com/docker/docker/.git ....