nix3-store-cat(1)           General Commands Manual          nix3-store-cat(1)


              Warning
              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
       o  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
       o  --debug

          Set the logging verbosity level to `debug'.

       o  --log-format format

          Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or
          bar-with-logs.

       o  --print-build-logs / -L

          Print full build logs on standard error.

       o  --quiet

          Decrease the logging verbosity level.

       o  --verbose / -v

          Increase the logging verbosity level.

   Miscellaneous global options
       o  --help

          Show usage information.

       o  --offline

          Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files
          up-to-date.

       o  --option name value

          Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding
          nix.conf).

       o  --refresh

          Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.

       o  --version

          Show version information.

          Note

          See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command
          line flags.

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