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<sect1 id="sec-common-options"><title>Common options</title>
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<para>Most Nix commands accept the following command-line options:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry><term><option>--help</option></term>
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<listitem><para>Prints out a summary of the command syntax and
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exits.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><option>--version</option></term>
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<listitem><para>Prints out the Nix version number on standard output
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and exits.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><option>--verbose</option> / <option>-v</option></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Increases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages
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printed on standard error. For each Nix operation, the information
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printed on standard output is well-defined; any diagnostic
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information is printed on standard error, never on standard
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output.</para>
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<para>This option may be specified repeatedly. Currently, the
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following verbosity levels exist:</para>
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry><term>0</term>
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<listitem><para><quote>Errors only</quote>: only print messages
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explaining why the Nix invocation failed.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>1</term>
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<listitem><para><quote>Informational</quote>: print
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<emphasis>useful</emphasis> messages about what Nix is doing.
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This is the default.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>2</term>
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<listitem><para><quote>Talkative</quote>: print more informational
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messages.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>3</term>
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<listitem><para><quote>Chatty</quote>: print even more
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informational messages.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>4</term>
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<listitem><para><quote>Debug</quote>: print debug
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information.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term>5</term>
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<listitem><para><quote>Vomit</quote>: print vast amounts of debug
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information.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><option>--no-build-output</option> / <option>-Q</option></term>
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<listitem><para>By default, output written by builders to standard
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output and standard error is echoed to the Nix command's standard
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error. This option suppresses this behaviour. Note that the
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builder's standard output and error are always written to a log file
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in
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<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/nix/var/log/nix</filename>.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><option>--max-jobs</option> / <option>-j</option></term>
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<listitem><para>Sets the maximum number of build jobs that Nix will
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perform in parallel to the specified number. The default is 1. A
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higher value is useful on SMP systems or to exploit I/O latency.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><option>--keep-going</option> / <option>-k</option></term>
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<listitem><para>Keep going in case of failed builds, to the
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greatest extent possible. That is, if building an input of some
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derivation fails, Nix will still build the other inputs, but not the
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derivation itself. Without this option, Nix stops if any build
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fails (except for builds of substitutes), possibly killing builds in
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progress (in case of parallel or distributed builds).</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><option>--keep-failed</option> / <option>-K</option></term>
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<listitem><para>Specifies that in case of a build failure, the
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temporary directory (usually in <filename>/tmp</filename>) in which
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the build takes place should not be deleted. The path of the build
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directory is printed as an informational message.
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><option>--fallback</option></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Whenever Nix attempts to realise a derivation for which a
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closure is already known, but this closure cannot be realised, fall
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back on normalising the derivation.</para>
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<para>The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we
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have registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution
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from, say, a network repository. If the repository is down, the
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realisation of the derivation will fail. When this option is
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specified, Nix will build the derivation instead. Thus, binary
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installation falls back on a source installation. This option is
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not the default since it is generally not desirable for a transient
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failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to a full build from
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source (with the related consumption of resources).</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><option>--readonly-mode</option></term>
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<listitem><para>When this option is used, no attempt is made to open
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the Nix database. Most Nix operations do need database access, so
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those operations will fail.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry id="opt-log-type"><term><option>--log-type</option>
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<replaceable>type</replaceable></term>
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<listitem>
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<para>This option determines how the output written to standard
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error is formatted. Nix’s diagnostic messages are typically
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<emphasis>nested</emphasis>. For instance, when tracing Nix
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expression evaluation (<command>nix-env -vvvvv</command>, messages
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from subexpressions are nested inside their parent expressions. Nix
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builder output is also often nested. For instance, the Nix Packages
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generic builder nests the various build tasks (unpack, configure,
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compile, etc.), and the GNU Make in <literal>stdenv-linux</literal>
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has been patched to provide nesting for recursive Make
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invocations.</para>
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<para><replaceable>type</replaceable> can be one of the
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following:
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<variablelist>
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<varlistentry><term><literal>pretty</literal></term>
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<listitem><para>Pretty-print the output, indicating different
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nesting levels using spaces. This is the
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default.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><literal>escapes</literal></term>
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<listitem><para>Indicate nesting using escape codes that can be
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interpreted by the <command>log2xml</command> tool in the Nix
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source distribution. The resulting XML file can be fed into the
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<command>log2html.xsl</command> stylesheet to create an HTML
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file that can be browsed interactively, using Javascript to
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expand and collapse parts of the output.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry><term><literal>flat</literal></term>
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<listitem><para>Remove all nesting.</para></listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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</sect1> |