nix-super/src/nix/nar-cat.md
John Ericson 1c75af969a Document store object content addressing & improve JSON format
The JSON format no longer uses the legacy ATerm `r:` prefixing nonsese,
but separate fields.

Progress on #9866

Co-authored-by: Robert Hensing <roberth@users.noreply.github.com>
2024-05-20 09:34:35 -04:00

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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"
    

Description

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

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