Common Commands

Open the Nix expression of a Nix package in $EDITOR.

Run a Bash shell that provides the build environment of a derivation.

Build a Nix expression (downloading from the cache when possible).See also: nix-build for information about traditional Nix builds from expressions, nix3 flake for information about flakes.

A powerful package manager that makes package management reliable, reproducible, and declarative.nix is experimental and requires enabling experimental features. For a classic, stable interface, see tldr nix classic.Some subcommands such as build, develop, flake, registry, profile, search, repl, store, edit, why-depends, etc. have their own usage documentation.

Manipulate or query the Nix store.See also: nix3 store.

Start an interactive shell based on a Nix expression.See also: nix3 shell.

Manipulate or query Nix user environments.

Delete unused and unreachable nix store paths.Generations can be listed using nix-env --list-generations.

A classic, stable interface to a powerful package manager that makes package management reliable, reproducible, and declarative.Some Nix commands such as nix-build, nix-shell, nix-env, and nix-store have their own pages. See also: tldr nix.

Build a Nix expression.See also: nix3 build.

A Build system designed to be fast.

Package manager for the Nim programming language.Manage Nim projects and their dependencies.

The Nim compiler.Processes, compiles and links Nim language source files.

Web server scanner which performs tests against web servers for multiple items.

Execute a program with a custom scheduling priority (niceness).Niceness values range from -20 (the highest priority) to 19 (the lowest).

Scripting language created specifically for Ops.

Reverse proxy that creates a secure tunnel from a public endpoint to a locally running web service.

Filter network traffic packets using regular expressions.

Nginx web server.

Create and manage Angular applications.