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nix store ls

Show information about a path in the Nix store.

Warning

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

Synopsis

nix store ls [option...] path

Examples

  • To list the contents of a store path in a binary cache:
## nix store ls --store https://cache.nixos.org/ --long --recursive /nix/store/0i2jd68mp5g6h2sa5k9c85rb80sn8hi9-hello-2.10
dr-xr-xr-x                    0 ./bin
-r-xr-xr-x                38184 ./bin/hello
dr-xr-xr-x                    0 ./share
…
  • To show information about a specific file in a binary cache:
## nix store ls --store https://cache.nixos.org/ --long /nix/store/0i2jd68mp5g6h2sa5k9c85rb80sn8hi9-hello-2.10/bin/hello
-r-xr-xr-x                38184 hello

Description

This command shows information about path in a Nix store. path can be a top-level store path or any file inside a store path.

Options

  • --directory / -d Show directories rather than their contents.

  • --json Produce output in JSON format, suitable for consumption by another program.

  • --long / -l Show detailed file information.

  • --recursive / -R List subdirectories recursively.

Logging-related options:

  • --debug Set the logging verbosity level to 'debug'.

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

  • --print-build-logs / -L Print full build logs on standard error.

  • --quiet Decrease the logging verbosity level.

  • --verbose / -v Increase the logging verbosity level.

Miscellaneous global options:

  • --help Show usage information.

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

  • --option name value Set the Lix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).

  • --refresh Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.

  • --version Show version information.

Note

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