nix3-profile-wipe-history(1) General Commands Manual nix3-profile-wipe-history(1)

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This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change.

nix profile wipe-history - delete non-current versions of a profile

nix profile wipe-history [option…]

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Delete all versions of the default profile older than 100 days:
# nix profile wipe-history --profile /tmp/profile --older-than 100d
removing profile version 515
removing profile version 514

This command deletes non-current versions of a profile, making it impossible to roll back to these versions. By default, all non-current versions are deleted. With --older-than Nd, all non-current versions older than N days are deleted.

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--dry-run
Show what this command would do without doing it.
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--older-than age
Delete versions older than the specified age. age must be in the format Nd, where N denotes a number of days.
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--profile path
The profile to operate on.
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--debug
Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.
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--log-format format
Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.
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--print-build-logs / -L
Print full build logs on standard error.
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--quiet
Decrease the logging verbosity level.
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--verbose / -v
Increase the logging verbosity level.

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--help
Show usage information.
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--offline
Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.
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--option name value
Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).
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--refresh
Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.
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--version
Show version information.

Note

See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.