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authorEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-10-03T20·37-0400
committerEelco Dolstra <eelco.dolstra@logicblox.com>2012-10-03T20·40-0400
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parent9c41c66c5b877dbb529f6147b28384a57a591895 (diff)
When ‘--help’ is given, just run ‘man’ to show the manual page
I.e. do what git does.  I'm too lazy to keep the builtin help text up
to date :-)

Also add ‘--help’ to various commands that lacked it
(e.g. nix-collect-garbage).
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-Usage: nix-instantiate [OPTIONS...] [FILES...]
-
-`nix-instantiate' turns Nix expressions into store derivations. 
-
-The argument `-' may be specified to read a Nix expression from
-standard input.
-
-Options:
-
-  --version: output version information
-  --help: display help
-
-  --verbose / -v: verbose operation (may be repeated)
-
-  --eval-only: evaluate and print resulting term; do not instantiate
-  --parse-only: parse and print abstract syntax tree
-
-  --attr / -A PATH: select an attribute from the top-level expression
-
-  --add-root: add garbage collector roots for the result
-
-For --eval-only / --parse-only:
-
-  --xml: print an XML representation of the abstract syntax tree
-  --no-location: don't provide source location information in the
-    output XML tree
-
-For --eval-only:
-
-  --strict: compute attributes and list elements, rather than being
-    lazy