nix-sweep(1)

💅 nix-sweep 💅

okay so this is the nix-sweep(1) page from the General Commands Manual — and it's literally the utility for cleaning up old Nix profile generations and left-over garbage collection roots. iconic cleanup main character energy, no cap ✨

🎀 NAME 🎀

nix-sweep — utility to clean up old Nix profile generations and left-over garbage collection roots. 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nix-sweep [-h|--help] [-V|--version] <subcommands>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so nix-sweep is the utility to clean up old Nix profile generations and left-over garbage collection roots. that's the whole vibe, fr fr 🧹✨

bestie, you can adjust the number of worker threads this program uses with the NIX_SWEEP_NUM_THREADS env variable. iykyk 💅

✨ OPTIONS ✨

• -h, --help — Print help (see a summary with -h) 🙈
• -V, --version — Print version 👑

🌈 SUBCOMMANDS 🌈

• nix-sweep-add-root(1) — Add a new garbage collection root 🌱
• nix-sweep-analyze(1) — Analyze store usage 🔍
• nix-sweep-cleanout(1) — Clean out old profile generations 🧼
• nix-sweep-gc(1) — Run garbage collection (short for nix-store --gc) 🗑️
• nix-sweep-gc-roots(1) — List garbage collection roots 📋
• nix-sweep-generations(1) — List profile generations 🧬
• nix-sweep-path-info(1) — Show information on a path or a symlink to a path 🛤️
• nix-sweep-presets(1) — Show information about available presets for cleanout 🎛️
• nix-sweep-tidyup-gc-roots(1) — Selectively remove gc roots ✂️
• nix-sweep-help(1) — Print this message or the help of the given subcommand(s) 🫶

👑 VERSION 👑

v0.8.0 ⭐

later bestie 🫶 — footer source/version: nix-sweep 0.8.0; manual page: nix-sweep(1); date: not listed in the original, so no invented date, periodt 💅