osmo-config-merge(8)
=====================

NAME
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osmo-config-merge - Merge osmocom config snippets into an existing config

SYNOPSIS
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[verse]
*osmo-config-merge* <config-file> <config-patch> [--debug]

DESCRIPTION
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This utility allows you to merge an incremental config "patch"
into an osmocom-style config file.

The patch file follows the same syntax as the original config file.

It works by appending the leaf nodes of the patch file to the respective
nodes of the input config file.

This process allows configuration file changes/updates to be performed
in a more stable/reliable way than by means of (unified) diff files,
as they break every time the context lines break.

osmo-config-merge doesn't suffer from this problem, as it understands
the tree-like nature of VTY config files.

The resulting config is printed to stdout.

NOTE: This only works with configuration files that have proper
indenting, i.e. every level in the hierarchy must be indented excatly
one character, not multiple.

OPTIONS
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*--debug*::
	Show debugging output when parsing the config tree. Needs to be the last argument.

EXAMPLE USAGE
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[verse]
$ osmo-config-merge osmo-msc.cfg.base osmo-msc_change_network.cfg > osmo-msc.cfg

EXIT STATUS
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Exit status is 0 if the command was successful, and 1 in case of a
wrong/missing argument. If the tool detects an error in the patch file the
exit status is 2.

SEE ALSO
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The official Osmocom documentation including the VTY config refernce can be
found at: http://ftp.osmocom.org/docs/latest/

The Osmocom wiki is located at: http://projects.osmocom.org/


AUTHORS
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osmo-config-merge was written by Harald Welte.

The man page was written by Daniel Willmann.