Nix 2.30.1
Nix, the purely functional package manager; unstable internal interfaces
 
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store-cat

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Examples

  • 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.

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