nix3-env(1)

💖 nix3-env(1) 💖

okay so this is straight out of the General Commands Manual, bestie — it's nix3-env and it's here to let you ~manipulate the process environment~ 🦋

⚠️ Warning — this program is experimental and its interface is subject to change. Like, do not build your entire personality on it. It might shift under you. iykyk 💀

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✨ Name ✨

nix env — manipulate the process environment 🌸

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✨ Synopsis ✨

nix env [option…] subcommand

where subcommand is one of the following:

• nix env shell — run a shell in which the specified packages are available 🐚

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✨ Options ✨

🌈 Logging-related options

• --debug — Set the logging verbosity level to debug. (we're going full detective mode, no crumbs left behind 🔍)
• --log-format format — Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs. pick your aesthetic 💅
• --print-build-logs, -L — Print full build logs on standard error. all of them. verbatim. on stderr. not a summary, the whole thing 👑
• --quiet — Decrease the logging verbosity level. shhh 🤫 quieter, babe
• --verbose, -v — Increase the logging verbosity level. more words!! more lore!! 📢

🎀 Miscellaneous global options

• --help — Show usage information. the classic "what do I even do here" button 🫶
• --offline — Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date. airplane mode but make it Nix ✈️
• --option name value — Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf). yes you can just do that, live your truth
• --refresh — Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date. everything is old now, sorry, I don't make the rules 😭
• --version — Show version information. who even am I ✨

📝 Note — See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags. fr fr, go read it, it's giving essential 🌟

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