Manpages - nix3-nar-cat.1

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This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change.

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Name

nix nar cat - print the contents of a file inside a NAR file on stdout

Synopsis

nix nar cat [/option/…] nar path

Examples

List a file in a Nix Archive (NAR) and pipe it through gunzip:

# nix nar cat ./hello.nar /share/man/man1/hello.1.gz | gunzip
.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.46.4.
.TH HELLO "1" "November 2014" "hello 2.10" "User Commands"
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Description

This command prints on standard output the contents of the regular file path inside the NAR file nar.

Options

Logging-related options

--debug Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug'.
--log-format format Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.
--print-build-logs / -L Print full build logs on standard error.
--quiet Decrease the logging verbosity level.
--verbose / -v Increase the logging verbosity level.

Miscellaneous global options

--help Show usage information.
--offline Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.
--option name value Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).
--refresh Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.
--version Show version information. Note See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.