nix3-key-c...t-to-public(1)

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💅 nix3-key-c...t-to-public(1) — General Commands Manual

okay bestie, so this one is a General Commands Manual page, and it's giving ✨cryptographic glow-up✨ — we're turning your secret key into a public one, no cap.

⚠️ Warning ⚠️ This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change. Like, fr fr. Don't build your whole personality around it.

🎀 NAME 🎀

nix key convert-secret-to-public — generate a public key for verifying store paths from a secret key read from standard input 💖

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

nix key convert-secret-to-public [option…]

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

  • Convert a secret key to a public key 😌 (it's giving alchemy, honestly):
# echo cache.example.org-0:E7lAO+MsPwTFfPXsdPtW8GKui/5ho4KQHVcAGnX+Tti1V4dUxoVoqLyWJ4YESuZJwQ67GVIksDt47og+tPVUZw== \
| nix key convert-secret-to-public
cache.example.org-0:tVeHVMaFaKi8lieGBErmScEOuxlSJLA7eO6IPrT1VGc=

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

So here's the tea ☕: this command reads an Ed25519 secret key from standard input, and writes the corresponding public key to standard output. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 🫶

For more details, go peek at nix key generate-secret. 👑

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • --debug — Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’. yes ma'am, maximum yapping 🔍
  • --log-format format — Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs. pick your aesthetic 💖
  • --print-build-logs / -L — Print full build logs on standard error. all the receipts, on stderr 📜
  • --quiet — Decrease the logging verbosity level. shhh 🤫
  • --verbose / -v — Increase the logging verbosity level. talk more, bestie 🗣️

🌈 Miscellaneous global options

  • --help — Show usage information. when in doubt 🆘
  • --offline — Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date. ✈️ mode: activated
  • --option name value — Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf). assertive, iconic 💅
  • --refresh — Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date. everything is old again, deal with it 💀
  • --version — Show version information. the lore 📖
📝 Note See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags. iykyk 🔥
🌟 tl;dr — secret key goes in, public key comes out, you cannot explain that 🎀

and that's a wrap, bestie!! 🦋 this page came to you from the General Commands Manual, filed under nix3-key-c...t-to-public(1) — same title at the bottom as the top, because symmetry is slay. periodt. 👑💖✨

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