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# Name
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`nix-prefetch-url` - copy a file from a URL into the store and print its hash
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# Synopsis
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`nix-prefetch-url` *url* [*hash*]
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[`--type` *hashAlgo*]
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[`--print-path`]
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[`--unpack`]
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[`--name` *name*]
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# Description
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The command `nix-prefetch-url` downloads the file referenced by the URL
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*url*, prints its cryptographic hash, and copies it into the Nix store.
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The file name in the store is `hash-baseName`, where *baseName* is
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everything following the final slash in *url*.
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This command is just a convenience for Nix expression writers. Often a
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Nix expression fetches some source distribution from the network using
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the `fetchurl` expression contained in Nixpkgs. However, `fetchurl`
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requires a cryptographic hash. If you don't know the hash, you would
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have to download the file first, and then `fetchurl` would download it
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again when you build your Nix expression. Since `fetchurl` uses the same
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name for the downloaded file as `nix-prefetch-url`, the redundant
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download can be avoided.
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If *hash* is specified, then a download is not performed if the Nix
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store already contains a file with the same hash and base name.
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Otherwise, the file is downloaded, and an error is signaled if the
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actual hash of the file does not match the specified hash.
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This command prints the hash on standard output.
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The hash is printed using base-32 unless `--type md5` is specified,
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in which case it's printed using base-16.
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Additionally, if the option `--print-path` is used,
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the path of the downloaded file in the Nix store is also printed.
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# Options
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- `--type` *hashAlgo*
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Use the specified cryptographic hash algorithm,
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which can be one of `md5`, `sha1`, `sha256`, and `sha512`.
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The default is `sha256`.
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- `--print-path`
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Print the store path of the downloaded file on standard output.
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- `--unpack`
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Unpack the archive (which must be a tarball or zip file) and add the
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result to the Nix store. The resulting hash can be used with
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functions such as Nixpkgs’s `fetchzip` or `fetchFromGitHub`.
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- `--executable`
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Set the executable bit on the downloaded file.
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- `--name` *name*
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Override the name of the file in the Nix store. By default, this is
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`hash-basename`, where *basename* is the last component of *url*.
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Overriding the name is necessary when *basename* contains characters
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that are not allowed in Nix store paths.
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# Examples
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```console
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$ nix-prefetch-url ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hello/hello-2.10.tar.gz
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0ssi1wpaf7plaswqqjwigppsg5fyh99vdlb9kzl7c9lng89ndq1i
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```
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```console
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$ nix-prefetch-url --print-path mirror://gnu/hello/hello-2.10.tar.gz
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0ssi1wpaf7plaswqqjwigppsg5fyh99vdlb9kzl7c9lng89ndq1i
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/nix/store/3x7dwzq014bblazs7kq20p9hyzz0qh8g-hello-2.10.tar.gz
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```
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```console
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$ nix-prefetch-url --unpack --print-path https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/archive/0.8.tar.gz
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079agjlv0hrv7fxnx9ngipx14gyncbkllxrp9cccnh3a50fxcmy7
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/nix/store/19zrmhm3m40xxaw81c8cqm6aljgrnwj2-0.8.tar.gz
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```
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