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Added utility command ‘nix-instantiate --find-file’ to look up a file in Nix's search path

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Eelco Dolstra 2012-04-17 17:14:14 +02:00
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doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml
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@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
<option>--eval-only</option>
<arg><option>--strict</option></arg>
</arg>
<arg choice='plain'><option>--find-file</option></arg>
</group>
<arg><option>--xml</option></arg>
</arg>
@ -100,6 +101,19 @@ policies.</para>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--find-file</option></term>
<listitem><para>Look up the given files in Nix’s search path (as
specified by the <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> environment variable).
If found, print the corresponding absolute paths on standard
output. For instance, if <envar>NIX_PATH</envar> is
<literal>nixpkgs=/home/alice/nixpkgs</literal>, then
<literal>nix-instantiate --find-file nixpkgs/default.nix</literal>
will print
<literal>/home/alice/nixpkgs/default.nix</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--xml</option></term>
<listitem><para>When used with <option>--parse-only</option> and