nix3-store(1)

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

Name

nix store - manipulate a Nix store

Synopsis

nix store [option…] subcommand

where subcommand is one of the following:

Available commands:

•   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 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

Available commands:

•   nix store roots-daemon - run a daemon that returns garbage collector roots on request

Options

  Logging-related options

•   --debug

    Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.

•   --log-format format

    Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.

•   --print-build-logs / -L

    Print full build logs on standard error.

•   --quiet

    Decrease the logging verbosity level.

•   --verbose / -v

    Increase the logging verbosity level.

  Miscellaneous global options

•   --help

    Show usage information.

•   --offline

    Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.

•   --option name value

    Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).

•   --refresh

    Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.

•   --version

    Show version information.

    Note

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