Manpages - nix3-store-ls.1

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

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Name

nix store ls - show information about a path in the Nix store

Synopsis

nix store ls [/option/…] path

Examples

To list the contents of a store path in a binary cache:

# nix store ls --store https://cache.nixos.org/ --long --recursive /nix/store/0i2jd68mp5g6h2sa5k9c85rb80sn8hi9-hello-2.10
dr-xr-xr-x                    0 ./bin
-r-xr-xr-x                38184 ./bin/hello
dr-xr-xr-x                    0 ./share
…

To show information about a specific file in a binary cache:

# nix store ls --store https://cache.nixos.org/ --long /nix/store/0i2jd68mp5g6h2sa5k9c85rb80sn8hi9-hello-2.10/bin/hello
-r-xr-xr-x                38184 hello

Description

This command shows information about path in a Nix store. path can be a top-level store path or any file inside a store path.

Options

--directory / -d Show directories rather than their contents.
--json Produce output in JSON format, suitable for consumption by another program.
--long / -l Show detailed file information.
--recursive / -R List subdirectories recursively.

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--refresh Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.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.