From b505f9eaf57c7badeacb176a1946b5f5f145f816 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eelco Dolstra <e.dolstra@tudelft.nl>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:29:17 +0000
Subject: * Document that nix-instantiate can read from stdin.

---
 doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml')

diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml b/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml
index d6cbe77c93de..ffee27beb8de 100644
--- a/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@ evaluate to a derivation, a list of derivations, or a set of
 derivations.  The paths of the resulting store derivations are printed
 on standard output.</para>
 
+<para>If <replaceable>files</replaceable> is the character
+<literal>-</literal>, then a Nix expression will be read from standard
+input.</para>
+
 <para>Most users and developers don’t need to use this command
 (<command>nix-env</command> and <command>nix-build</command> perform
 store derivation instantiation from Nix expressions automatically).
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