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Acquiring the Nix hash of a large file #nix
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Acquiring the Nix hash of a large file

Normally you could use nix-prefetch-url. However it doesn't work when the files don't fit into memory.

For those cases, you should use:

wget https://url-to-large-file.com/file.zip
nix-hash --flat --base32 --type sha256 ./file.zip

This will get you what you need.

However you can also just use an all 0 hashes.

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