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nix store cat

Print the contents of a file in the Nix store on stdout.

Warning

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

Synopsis

nix store cat [option...] path

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.