nix3-store-cat - (unknown subject)
Name Synopsis Examples Description Options Logging-related options Miscellaneous global optionsWarning
This program is
experimental
and its interface is subject to change.
Name
nix store cat - print the contents of a file in the Nix store on stdout
Synopsis
nix store cat [option…] path
Examples
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Show the contents of a file in a binary cache: |
# 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.
Options
Logging-related options
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Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.
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--log-format format |
Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.
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--print-build-logs / -L |
Print full build logs on standard error.
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Decrease the logging verbosity level.
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--verbose / -v |
Increase the logging verbosity level.
Miscellaneous global options
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Show usage information.
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Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.
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--option name value |
Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).
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Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.
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Show version information.
Note
See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.