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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-05-03T12·08+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-05-03T12·08+0200
commit782c0bff45593e7116d9b17b7de71b7ee636a807 (patch)
treea7662d37c71696c46dc9cc4ee5730325a11ecacb /src/nix
parentd3dcdfa00691cfe6f6a939fde218f1980d3cf73c (diff)
nix eval: Add a --raw flag
Similar to "jq -r", this prints the evaluation result (which must be a
string value) unquoted.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/nix')
-rw-r--r--src/nix/eval.cc14
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix/eval.cc b/src/nix/eval.cc
index eb2b13a2dcd7..981cefa800c4 100644
--- a/src/nix/eval.cc
+++ b/src/nix/eval.cc
@@ -10,6 +10,13 @@ using namespace nix;
 
 struct CmdEval : MixJSON, InstallablesCommand
 {
+    bool raw = false;
+
+    CmdEval()
+    {
+        mkFlag(0, "raw", "print strings unquoted", &raw);
+    }
+
     std::string name() override
     {
         return "eval";
@@ -22,13 +29,18 @@ struct CmdEval : MixJSON, InstallablesCommand
 
     void run(ref<Store> store) override
     {
+        if (raw && json)
+            throw UsageError("--raw and --json are mutually exclusive");
+
         auto state = getEvalState();
 
         auto jsonOut = json ? std::make_unique<JSONList>(std::cout) : nullptr;
 
         for (auto & i : installables) {
             auto v = i->toValue(*state);
-            if (json) {
+            if (raw) {
+                std::cout << state->forceString(*v);
+            } else if (json) {
                 PathSet context;
                 auto jsonElem = jsonOut->placeholder();
                 printValueAsJSON(*state, true, *v, jsonElem, context);