nix nar cat

Print the contents of a file inside a NAR file on stdout.

Warning

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

Synopsis

nix nar cat [option...] nar path

Examples

• List a file in a NAR and pipe it through gunzip:

## nix nar cat ./hello.nar /share/man/man1/hello.1.gz | gunzip
." DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.46.4.
.TH HELLO "1" "November 2014" "hello 2.10" "User Commands"
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Description

This command prints on standard output the contents of the regular file path inside the NAR file nar.