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-<refentry xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
-      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
-      xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
-      version="5.0"
-      xml:id="sec-nix-prefetch-url">
-
-<refmeta>
-  <refentrytitle>nix-prefetch-url</refentrytitle>
-  <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
-  <refmiscinfo class="source">Nix</refmiscinfo>
-  <refmiscinfo class="version"><xi:include href="../version.txt" parse="text"/></refmiscinfo>
-</refmeta>
-
-<refnamediv>
-  <refname>nix-prefetch-url</refname>
-  <refpurpose>copy a file from a URL into the store and print its hash</refpurpose>
-</refnamediv>
-
-<refsynopsisdiv>
-  <cmdsynopsis>
-    <command>nix-prefetch-url</command>
-    <arg><option>--version</option></arg>
-    <arg><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></arg>
-    <arg><option>--print-path</option></arg>
-    <arg><option>--unpack</option></arg>
-    <arg><option>--name</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
-    <arg choice='plain'><replaceable>url</replaceable></arg>
-    <arg><replaceable>hash</replaceable></arg>
-  </cmdsynopsis>
-</refsynopsisdiv>
-
-<refsection><title>Description</title>
-
-<para>The command <command>nix-prefetch-url</command> downloads the
-file referenced by the URL <replaceable>url</replaceable>, prints its
-cryptographic hash, and copies it into the Nix store.  The file name
-in the store is
-<filename><replaceable>hash</replaceable>-<replaceable>baseName</replaceable></filename>,
-where <replaceable>baseName</replaceable> is everything following the
-final slash in <replaceable>url</replaceable>.</para>
-
-<para>This command is just a convenience for Nix expression writers.
-Often a Nix expression fetches some source distribution from the
-network using the <literal>fetchurl</literal> expression contained in
-Nixpkgs.  However, <literal>fetchurl</literal> requires a
-cryptographic hash.  If you don't know the hash, you would have to
-download the file first, and then <literal>fetchurl</literal> would
-download it again when you build your Nix expression.  Since
-<literal>fetchurl</literal> uses the same name for the downloaded file
-as <command>nix-prefetch-url</command>, the redundant download can be
-avoided.</para>
-
-<para>If <replaceable>hash</replaceable> is specified, then a download
-is not performed if the Nix store already contains a file with the
-same hash and base name.  Otherwise, the file is downloaded, and an
-error is signaled if the actual hash of the file does not match the
-specified hash.</para>
-
-<para>This command prints the hash on standard output.  Additionally,
-if the option <option>--print-path</option> is used, the path of the
-downloaded file in the Nix store is also printed.</para>
-
-</refsection>
-
-
-<refsection><title>Options</title>
-
-<variablelist>
-
-  <varlistentry><term><option>--type</option> <replaceable>hashAlgo</replaceable></term>
-
-    <listitem><para>Use the specified cryptographic hash algorithm,
-    which can be one of <literal>md5</literal>,
-    <literal>sha1</literal>, and
-    <literal>sha256</literal>.</para></listitem>
-
-  </varlistentry>
-
-  <varlistentry><term><option>--print-path</option></term>
-
-    <listitem><para>Print the store path of the downloaded file on
-    standard output.</para></listitem>
-
-  </varlistentry>
-
-  <varlistentry><term><option>--unpack</option></term>
-
-    <listitem><para>Unpack the archive (which must be a tarball or zip
-    file) and add the result to the Nix store. The resulting hash can
-    be used with functions such as Nixpkgs’s
-    <varname>fetchzip</varname> or
-    <varname>fetchFromGitHub</varname>.</para></listitem>
-
-  </varlistentry>
-
-  <varlistentry><term><option>--name</option> <replaceable>name</replaceable></term>
-
-    <listitem><para>Override the name of the file in the Nix store. By
-    default, this is
-    <literal><replaceable>hash</replaceable>-<replaceable>basename</replaceable></literal>,
-    where <replaceable>basename</replaceable> is the last component of
-    <replaceable>url</replaceable>. Overriding the name is necessary
-    when <replaceable>basename</replaceable> contains characters that
-    are not allowed in Nix store paths.</para></listitem>
-
-  </varlistentry>
-
-</variablelist>
-
-</refsection>
-
-
-<refsection><title>Examples</title>
-
-<screen>
-$ nix-prefetch-url ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hello/hello-2.10.tar.gz
-0ssi1wpaf7plaswqqjwigppsg5fyh99vdlb9kzl7c9lng89ndq1i
-
-$ nix-prefetch-url --print-path mirror://gnu/hello/hello-2.10.tar.gz
-0ssi1wpaf7plaswqqjwigppsg5fyh99vdlb9kzl7c9lng89ndq1i
-/nix/store/3x7dwzq014bblazs7kq20p9hyzz0qh8g-hello-2.10.tar.gz
-
-$ nix-prefetch-url --unpack --print-path https://github.com/NixOS/patchelf/archive/0.8.tar.gz
-079agjlv0hrv7fxnx9ngipx14gyncbkllxrp9cccnh3a50fxcmy7
-/nix/store/19zrmhm3m40xxaw81c8cqm6aljgrnwj2-0.8.tar.gz
-</screen>
-
-</refsection>
-
-
-</refentry>