Document expected output of 'nix store ping'.

While interpreting the output is fairly intuitive it would be better to
explicitly specify what a good invocation looks like.

That this isn't completely obvious (or at least causes folks to
second-guess themselves) can be seen in a couple user threads:

- https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nixos-cache-fetching-issue/3575/11
- https://discourse.nixos.org/t/newbie-question-cant-get-trivial-example-of-nixops-to-work-on-my-mac/1125/8
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@ -27,4 +27,6 @@ argument `--store` *url*) can be accessed. What this means is
dependent on the type of the store. For instance, for an SSH store it
means that Nix can connect to the specified machine.
When the command succeeds a zero exit code is returned with no output.
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