nix
nix
TLDR
Search for a package via its name or description
Start a Nix shell with the specified packages available
Optimise Nix store disk usage by combining duplicate files
Start an interactive environment for evaluating Nix expressions
Upgrade Nix to the latest stable version
SYNOPSIS
nix <COMMAND> <FLAGS>... <ARGS>...
DESCRIPTION
Common flags:
- --debug
enable debug output
- --help
show usage information
- --help-config
show configuration options
- --option <NAME> <VALUE>
set a Nix configuration option (overriding nix.conf)
- --quiet
decrease verbosity level
- -v, --verbose
increase verbosity level
- --version
show version information
In addition, most configuration settings can be overriden using '--<name> <value>'. Boolean settings can be overriden using '--<name>' or '--no-<name>'. See 'nix --help-config' for a list of configuration settings.
Available commands:
- add-to-store
add a path to the Nix store
- build
build a derivation or fetch a store path
- cat-nar
print the contents of a file inside a NAR file
- cat-store
print the contents of a store file on stdout
- copy
copy paths between Nix stores
- copy-sigs
copy path signatures from substituters (like binary caches)
- dump-path
dump a store path to stdout (in NAR format)
- edit
open the Nix expression of a Nix package in $EDITOR
- eval
evaluate a Nix expression
- hash-file
print cryptographic hash of a regular file
- hash-path
print cryptographic hash of the NAR serialisation of a path
- log
show the build log of the specified packages or paths, if available
- ls-nar
show information about the contents of a NAR file
- ls-store
show information about a store path
- optimise-store
replace identical files in the store by hard links
- path-info
query information about store paths
- ping-store
test whether a store can be opened
- repl
start an interactive environment for evaluating Nix expressions
- run
run a shell in which the specified packages are available
- search
query available packages
- show-config
show the Nix configuration
- show-derivation
show the contents of a store derivation
- sign-paths
sign the specified paths
- to-base16
convert a hash to base-16 representation
- to-base32
convert a hash to base-32 representation
- to-base64
convert a hash to base-64 representation
- upgrade-nix
upgrade Nix to the latest stable version
- verify
verify the integrity of store paths
- why-depends
show why a package has another package in its closure
Note: this program is EXPERIMENTAL and subject to change.
