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nextflow inspect

Added in version 23.10

Inspect process settings in a pipeline project. Supports the container directive only.

Usage​

$ nextflow inspect [options] [project]

Description​

Use the inspect command to determine the container for each process in a pipeline without running the pipeline. It prints the containers for each process to standard output, formatted as either JSON or Nextflow configuration.

Options​

-concretize​

Build the container images resolved by the inspect command.

-format (json)​

Inspect output format. Can be json or config.

-i, -ignore-errors​

Ignore errors while inspecting the pipeline.

-params-file​

Load script parameters from a JSON/YAML file.

-profile​

Use the given configuration profile(s).

-r, -revision​

Revision of the project to inspect. Can be a git branch, tag, or commit SHA number.

Examples​

List the containers used by a pipeline:

$ nextflow inspect nextflow-io/hello

Specify parameters as with the run command:

$ nextflow inspect main.nf --alpha 1 --beta hello
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