nix3-nar-cat(1)

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version 2.35.3 · 10 versions
, in fedora 44

👑 nix3-nar-cat(1) 👑

okay so this is from the General Commands Manual, and bestie, it's a whole vibe. grab a snack, we're reading a manpage together and it's gonna be fun, i promise 🍓

⚠️ Warning — this program is experimental and its interface is subject to change. like, it might wake up one day and decide to be a different program. do not build your entire personality around it. 💀

✨ Name ✨

nix nar cat — print the contents of a file inside a NAR file on stdout. that's it. that's the whole job. she's simple, she's iconic, she does one thing. 👑

NAR means Nix Archive, btw. iykyk. 🌈

🌸 Synopsis 🌸

nix nar cat [option…] nar path

so it's nix nar cat, then whatever options you're feeling, then the nar file, then the path inside it. order matters bestie, don't freestyle it. 💅

🫶 Examples 🫶

  • List a file in a Nix Archive (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"
…

the | gunzip is doing so much heavy lifting there and she ate. 🔥

🦋 Description 🦋

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

that's literally the entire description. no plot twist, no secret second meaning. she said what she said. ✨

🎀 Options 🎀

  • --debug — Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’. (yes the quotes are singles and they're curly, i don't make the rules — maximum chatter mode, she will tell you EVERYTHING 🌸)
  • --log-format format — Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs. pick your aesthetic bestie 💅
  • --print-build-logs / -L — Print full build logs on standard error.
  • --quiet — Decrease the logging verbosity level. shhh. 🤫
  • --verbose / -v — Increase the logging verbosity level. talk to me more actually 🗣️

🧚 Miscellaneous global options

  • --help — Show usage information. when in doubt, ask her directly. 🫶
  • --offline — Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date. airplane mode but make it nix ✈️
  • --option name value — Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf). the main character override. 👑
  • --refresh — Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date. the opposite of --offline, she's keeping receipts. 🔥
  • --version — Show version information.
Note — See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags. go read her too, she's the source of truth. 💖

no cap, that's the whole page. go forth and cat your NARs, you're gonna be so good at this. 💅🌈

this was nix3-nar-cat(1) from the General Commands Manual — sending you love, mwah, bye bestie 🎀💖✨

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