nix3-key(1)

⚠️ Warning ⚠️

This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change. Like, subject to change subject to change. Bestie, this thing is a work in progress and the CLI might shift under your feet, so don't go building your whole personality (or your CI pipeline) around it, okay? 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

nix key — generate and convert Nix signing keys 🔑💖

So this is one of the little nix subcommands, from the General Commands Manual corner of the nix3-key(1) page. It's all about keys, and it's very much giving "small but mighty." 🫶

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

nix key [option…] subcommand

where subcommand is one of the following:

• nix key convert-secret-to-public — generate a public key for verifying store paths from a secret key read from standard input
• nix key generate-secret — generate a secret key for signing store paths

Two subcommands, no notes, no filler. Pick your fighter. 🥊✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

🌈 Logging-related options

These are the "how much do you wanna hear about it" knobs. Volume control for your terminal soul. 📢

• --debug — Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’. She's chatty. She's telling you everything. 💀
• --log-format format — Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs. Pick your aesthetic — raw text, machine-readable JSON, a lil progress bar, or a progress bar that also yells the logs at you. 🍓
• --print-build-logs / -L — Print full build logs on standard error. All of them. The whole saga. No skimming. 😭
• --quiet — Decrease the logging verbosity level. Shhh. 🤫
• --verbose / -v — Increase the logging verbosity level. More, more, more. 🗣️✨

🦋 Miscellaneous global options

• --help — Show usage information. When in doubt, ask the program itself. She loves attention. 💖
• --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). Sneaky little config override, love that for you. 👑
• --refresh — Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date. The opposite vibe of --offline, fr fr. 🔥
• --version — Show version information. Iconic of her, honestly. ⭐

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

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💜 no cap, every flag accounted for, nothing skipped, nothing invented. This was nix3-key(1), hanging out under the General Commands Manual umbrella, and the footer just says nix3-key(1) again because she loves a dramatic exit. go forth and generate those keys, you absolute main character 🎀🦋🌸