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| author | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2006-02-10T15·29+0000 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl> | 2006-02-10T15·29+0000 |
| commit | b505f9eaf57c7badeacb176a1946b5f5f145f816 (patch) | |
| tree | a1fd218559e5ea4eb6bc514410229e3c601019cd /doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml | |
| parent | 9e51abc7dc13ece2a561cdd41c0304cffbba67d4 (diff) | |
* Document that nix-instantiate can read from stdin.
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml b/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml index d6cbe77c93..ffee27beb8 100644 --- a/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml +++ b/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml @@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ evaluate to a derivation, a list of derivations, or a set of derivations. The paths of the resulting store derivations are printed on standard output.</para> +<para>If <replaceable>files</replaceable> is the character +<literal>-</literal>, then a Nix expression will be read from standard +input.</para> + <para>Most users and developers don’t need to use this command (<command>nix-env</command> and <command>nix-build</command> perform store derivation instantiation from Nix expressions automatically). |