nix3-store(1) General Commands Manual nix3-store(1)

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

nix store - manipulate a Nix store

nix store [option…] subcommand

where subcommand is one of the following:

  • nix store add - Add a file or directory to the Nix store
  • nix store add-file - Deprecated. Use nix store add --mode flat instead.
  • nix store add-path - Deprecated alias to nix store add.
  • nix store cat - print the contents of a file in the Nix store on stdout
  • nix store copy-log - copy build logs between Nix stores
  • nix store copy-sigs - copy store path signatures from substituters
  • nix store delete - delete paths from the Nix store
  • nix store diff-closures - show what packages and versions were added and removed between two closures
  • nix store dump-path - serialise a store path to stdout in NAR format
  • nix store gc - perform garbage collection on a Nix store
  • nix store info - test whether a store can be accessed
  • nix store ls - show information about a path in the Nix store
  • nix store make-content-addressed - rewrite a path or closure to content-addressed form
  • nix store optimise - replace identical files in the store by hard links
  • nix store path-from-hash-part - get a store path from its hash part
  • nix store ping - test whether a store can be accessed
  • nix store prefetch-file - download a file into the Nix store
  • nix store repair - repair store paths
  • nix store sign - sign store paths with a local key
  • nix store verify - verify the integrity of store paths

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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.