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| author | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-04-17T15·14+0200 |
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| committer | Eelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com> | 2012-04-17T15·14+0200 |
| commit | 8745fade0387b2900a98b95798d9f12be7ef97ca (patch) | |
| tree | 2037037a5d863c122cb03fee0e0608a66cc9a290 /doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml | |
| parent | 8cf1719e3e02998c0d22ed9e505a4a98e3335627 (diff) | |
Added utility command ‘nix-instantiate --find-file’ to look up a file in Nix's search path
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml b/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml index a659ee730484..7e6120852f09 100644 --- a/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml +++ b/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ <option>--eval-only</option> <arg><option>--strict</option></arg> </arg> + <arg choice='plain'><option>--find-file</option></arg> </group> <arg><option>--xml</option></arg> </arg> @@ -100,6 +101,19 @@ policies.</para> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><option>--find-file</option></term> + + <listitem><para>Look up the given files in Nix’s search path (as + specified by the <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> environment variable). + If found, print the corresponding absolute paths on standard + output. For instance, if <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> is + <literal>nixpkgs=/home/alice/nixpkgs</literal>, then + <literal>nix-instantiate --find-file nixpkgs/default.nix</literal> + will print + <literal>/home/alice/nixpkgs/default.nix</literal>.</para></listitem> + + </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><option>--xml</option></term> <listitem><para>When used with <option>--parse-only</option> and |