nix3-config-show(1)

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version 2.35.3 · 9 versions
, in fedora 44

💅 nix3-config-show(1) — the glow-up edition

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual for nix3-config-show(1) 🎀 this is the page that tells you how to peek at ur Nix configuration, or just snoop on one specific setting. let's get into it 💖

⚠️ warning warning warning ⚠️ this program is experimental and its interface is subject to change. like, it might literally get a whole new outfit next release. don't build ur entire personality on it, ok? 🙈

✨ Name ✨

nix config show — show the Nix configuration, or the value of a specific setting 👑

🌸 Synopsis 🌸

nix config show [option…] name

💖 Options 💖

  • --json — produce output in JSON format, suitable for consumption by another program 🤖 bestie this is the one u want when ur piping it into something else.
  • --no-pretty — print compact JSON output on a single line, even when the output is a terminal. some commands may print multiple JSON objects on separate lines 👀

See --pretty.

  • --pretty — print multi-line, indented JSON output for readability ✨

Default: indent if output is to a terminal.

This option is only effective when --json is also specified 🫶 so don't come crying to me when --pretty alone does nothing, i warned u.

  • --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 ✈️ (like airplane mode but for Nix, no cap.)
  • --option name value — set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf) 👑 u are literally the main character here.
  • --refresh — consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date 🔄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. iykyk.

and that's the whole page, bestie!! every single flag, every value, every default — nothing skipped, nothing invented, we ate and left absolutely no crumbs 💅✨

this was nix3-config-show(1) from the General Commands Manual, mwah 😘 go forth and inspect ur config, u icon 🌸

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