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Name

       nix store cat - print the contents of a file in the Nix store on stdout

Synopsis

       nix store cat [option…] path

Examples

       • Show the contents of a file in a binary cache:

       # nix store cat --store https://cache.nixos.org/ \
         /nix/store/0i2jd68mp5g6h2sa5k9c85rb80sn8hi9-hello-2.10/bin/hello | hexdump -C | head -n1
       00000000  7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|

Description

       This  command  prints  on  standard  output the contents of the regular file path in a Nix
       store. path can be a top-level store path or any file inside a store path.

                                                                                nix3-store-cat(1)