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# anaconda channel show

## Usage

```bash theme={null}
anaconda channel show <NAME> [OPTIONS]
```

## Description

Displays information about a channel, including name, description, privacy setting, artifact count, download count, mirror count, indexing behavior, and timestamps.

You can specify the channel in two ways:

* **Simple name with `--namespace`**: `anaconda channel show my-channel --namespace my-org`
* **Combined format**: `anaconda channel show my-org/my-channel`

Use `--full-details` to also display subchannels (if the channel is not itself a subchannel).

## Arguments

Argument

Description

`<NAME>`

Channel name to show (or `namespace/channel` format)

## Options

Option

Description

`-n, --namespace <TEXT>`

Namespace the channel belongs to

`--full-details`

Show full details including subchannels

`-p, --packages`

List the packages in the channel

`--files`

List individual files with their exact filenames. Useful for identifying files to pass to [`anaconda channel remove-package`](https://anaconda.com/docs/cli-reference/anaconda-client/commands/channel-remove-package).

`-h, --help`

Show help for this command

## Examples

**Show channel information**

```bash theme={null}
anaconda channel show my-channel --namespace my-org
```

**Show full details including subchannels**

```bash theme={null}
anaconda channel show my-org/my-channel --full-details
```

**List packages in a channel**

```bash theme={null}
anaconda channel show my-org/my-channel --packages
```

**List individual files in a channel**

```bash theme={null}
anaconda channel show my-org/my-channel --files
```