From b505f9eaf57c7badeacb176a1946b5f5f145f816 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eelco Dolstra Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 15:29:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * Document that nix-instantiate can read from stdin. --- doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml b/doc/manual/nix-instantiate.xml index d6cbe77c93..ffee27beb8 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. +If files is the character +-, then a Nix expression will be read from standard +input. + Most users and developers don’t need to use this command (nix-env and nix-build perform store derivation instantiation from Nix expressions automatically).