lix/src/nix/store-ls.md

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Examples

• To list the contents of a store path in a binary cache:

  # nix store ls --store https://cache.nixos.org/ --long --recursive /nix/store/0i2jd68mp5g6h2sa5k9c85rb80sn8hi9-hello-2.10
  dr-xr-xr-x                    0 ./bin
  -r-xr-xr-x                38184 ./bin/hello
  dr-xr-xr-x                    0 ./share
  …
  

• To show information about a specific file in a binary cache:

  # nix store ls --store https://cache.nixos.org/ --long /nix/store/0i2jd68mp5g6h2sa5k9c85rb80sn8hi9-hello-2.10/bin/hello
  -r-xr-xr-x                38184 hello
  

Description

This command shows information about path in a Nix store. path can be a top-level store path or any file inside a store path.

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