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| author | John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems> | 2021-02-25 21:58:41 +0000 |
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| committer | John Ericson <John.Ericson@Obsidian.Systems> | 2021-02-25 21:58:41 +0000 |
| commit | 90d76fa399de4e207ea14ec4c0dd65434f60c152 (patch) | |
| tree | 3c52e982cba5bcf7b91c99d1b63ba967b4ea8b92 /src/nix/store-cat.md | |
| parent | 4636cc9a1f6de70947abbfb17a0ad91981d1cad7 (diff) | |
| parent | ca0994819d68aee26a2906c37a47ae609ac46c4c (diff) | |
Merge remote-tracking branch 'obsidian/path-info' into ca-drv-exotic
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diff --git a/src/nix/store-cat.md b/src/nix/store-cat.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..da2073473 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/nix/store-cat.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +R""( + +# Examples + +* Show the contents of a file in a binary cache: + + ```console + # nix store cat --store https://cache.nixos.org/ \ + /nix/store/0i2jd68mp5g6h2sa5k9c85rb80sn8hi9-hello-2.10/bin/hello | hexdump -C | head -n1 + 00000000 7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |.ELF............| + ``` + +# Description + +This command prints on standard output the contents of the regular +file *path* in a Nix store. *path* can be a top-level store path or +any file inside a store path. + +)"" |