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authorEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-09-08T09·33+0200
committerEelco Dolstra <edolstra@gmail.com>2017-09-08T09·33+0200
commita2740c9ca23e748c3ab8ea61a135594a94c86aae (patch)
tree2ab92617c45b95e3843ec069f4a8aa5612ea0361 /src/nix
parent88e6bb76de5564b3217be9688677d1c89101b2a3 (diff)
nix copy: Add examples
Diffstat (limited to 'src/nix')
-rw-r--r--src/nix/copy.cc10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix/copy.cc b/src/nix/copy.cc
index fe963e794277..bf9ffe75569f 100644
--- a/src/nix/copy.cc
+++ b/src/nix/copy.cc
@@ -39,9 +39,17 @@ struct CmdCopy : StorePathsCommand
     {
         return {
             Example{
-                "To copy Firefox to the local store to a binary cache in file:///tmp/cache:",
+                "To copy Firefox from the local store to a binary cache in file:///tmp/cache:",
                 "nix copy --to file:///tmp/cache -r $(type -p firefox)"
             },
+            Example{
+                "To copy the entire current NixOS system closure to another machine via SSH:",
+                "nix copy --to ssh://server -r /run/current-system"
+            },
+            Example{
+                "To copy a closure from another machine via SSH:",
+                "nix copy --from ssh://server -r /nix/store/a6cnl93nk1wxnq84brbbwr6hxw9gp2w9-blender-2.79-rc2"
+            },
         };
     }