Warning
This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change.
Name
nix store ls
- show information about a path in the Nix store
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 ofraw
,internal-json
,bar
,bar-with-logs
,multiline
ormultiline-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 (overridingnix.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Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.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.