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Most Nix commands accept the following command-line options:
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Most Nix commands accept the following command-line options:
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- <span id="opt-help">[`--help`](#opt-help)</span>\
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- <span id="opt-help">[`--help`](#opt-help)</span>
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Prints out a summary of the command syntax and exits.
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- <span id="opt-version">[`--version`](#opt-version)</span>\
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Prints out a summary of the command syntax and exits.
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Prints out the Nix version number on standard output and exits.
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- <span id="opt-verbose">[`--verbose`](#opt-verbose)</span> / `-v`\
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- <span id="opt-version">[`--version`](#opt-version)</span>
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Increases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages printed on
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standard error. For each Nix operation, the information printed on
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standard output is well-defined; any diagnostic information is
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printed on standard error, never on standard output.
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This option may be specified repeatedly. Currently, the following
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Prints out the Nix version number on standard output and exits.
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verbosity levels exist:
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- 0\
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- <span id="opt-verbose">[`--verbose`](#opt-verbose)</span> / `-v`
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“Errors only”: only print messages explaining why the Nix
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invocation failed.
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- 1\
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Increases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages printed on standard error.
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“Informational”: print *useful* messages about what Nix is
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For each Nix operation, the information printed on standard output is well-defined;
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doing. This is the default.
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any diagnostic information is printed on standard error, never on standard output.
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- 2\
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This option may be specified repeatedly.
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“Talkative”: print more informational messages.
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Currently, the following verbosity levels exist:
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- 3\
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- `0` “Errors only”
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“Chatty”: print even more informational messages.
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- 4\
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Only print messages explaining why the Nix invocation failed.
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“Debug”: print debug information.
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- 5\
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- `1` “Informational”
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“Vomit”: print vast amounts of debug information.
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- <span id="opt-quiet">[`--quiet`](#opt-quiet)</span>\
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Print *useful* messages about what Nix is doing.
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Decreases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages printed on
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This is the default.
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standard error. This is the inverse option to `-v` / `--verbose`.
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This option may be specified repeatedly. See the previous verbosity
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- `2` “Talkative”
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levels list.
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- <span id="opt-log-format">[`--log-format`](#opt-log-format)</span> *format*\
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Print more informational messages.
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This option can be used to change the output of the log format, with
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*format* being one of:
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- raw\
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- `3` “Chatty”
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This is the raw format, as outputted by nix-build.
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- internal-json\
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Print even more informational messages.
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Outputs the logs in a structured manner.
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> **Warning**
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- `4` “Debug”
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>
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> While the schema itself is relatively stable, the format of
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Print debug information.
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> the error-messages (namely of the `msg`-field) can change
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> between releases.
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- bar\
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- `5` “Vomit”
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Only display a progress bar during the builds.
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- bar-with-logs\
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Print vast amounts of debug information.
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Display the raw logs, with the progress bar at the bottom.
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- <span id="opt-no-build-output">[`--no-build-output`](#opt-no-build-output)</span> / `-Q`\
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- <span id="opt-quiet">[`--quiet`](#opt-quiet)</span>
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By default, output written by builders to standard output and
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standard error is echoed to the Nix command's standard error. This
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option suppresses this behaviour. Note that the builder's standard
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output and error are always written to a log file in
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`prefix/nix/var/log/nix`.
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- <span id="opt-max-jobs">[`--max-jobs`](#opt-max-jobs)</span> / `-j` *number*\
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Decreases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages printed on standard error.
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Sets the maximum number of build jobs that Nix will perform in
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This is the inverse option to `-v` / `--verbose`.
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parallel to the specified number. Specify `auto` to use the number
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of CPUs in the system. The default is specified by the `max-jobs`
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configuration setting, which itself defaults to `1`. A higher
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value is useful on SMP systems or to exploit I/O latency.
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Setting it to `0` disallows building on the local machine, which is
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This option may be specified repeatedly.
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useful when you want builds to happen only on remote builders.
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See the previous verbosity levels list.
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- <span id="opt-cores">[`--cores`](#opt-cores)</span>\
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- <span id="opt-log-format">[`--log-format`](#opt-log-format)</span> *format*
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Sets the value of the `NIX_BUILD_CORES` environment variable in
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the invocation of builders. Builders can use this variable at
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their discretion to control the maximum amount of parallelism. For
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instance, in Nixpkgs, if the derivation attribute
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`enableParallelBuilding` is set to `true`, the builder passes the
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`-jN` flag to GNU Make. It defaults to the value of the `cores`
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configuration setting, if set, or `1` otherwise. The value `0`
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means that the builder should use all available CPU cores in the
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system.
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- <span id="opt-max-silent-time">[`--max-silent-time`](#opt-max-silent-time)</span>\
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This option can be used to change the output of the log format, with *format* being one of:
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Sets the maximum number of seconds that a builder can go without
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producing any data on standard output or standard error. The
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default is specified by the `max-silent-time` configuration
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setting. `0` means no time-out.
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- <span id="opt-timeout">[`--timeout`](#opt-timeout)</span>\
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- `raw`
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Sets the maximum number of seconds that a builder can run. The
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default is specified by the `timeout` configuration setting. `0`
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means no timeout.
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- <span id="opt-keep-going">[`--keep-going`](#opt-keep-going)</span> / `-k`\
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This is the raw format, as outputted by nix-build.
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Keep going in case of failed builds, to the greatest extent
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possible. That is, if building an input of some derivation fails,
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Nix will still build the other inputs, but not the derivation
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itself. Without this option, Nix stops if any build fails (except
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for builds of substitutes), possibly killing builds in progress (in
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case of parallel or distributed builds).
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- <span id="opt-keep-failed">[`--keep-failed`](#opt-keep-failed)</span> / `-K`\
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- `internal-json`
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Specifies that in case of a build failure, the temporary directory
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(usually in `/tmp`) in which the build takes place should not be
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deleted. The path of the build directory is printed as an
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informational message.
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- <span id="opt-fallback">[`--fallback`](#opt-fallback)</span>\
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Outputs the logs in a structured manner.
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Whenever Nix attempts to build a derivation for which substitutes
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are known for each output path, but realising the output paths
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through the substitutes fails, fall back on building the derivation.
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The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we have
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> **Warning**
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registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution from,
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say, a network repository. If the repository is down, the
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> While the schema itself is relatively stable, the format of
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realisation of the derivation will fail. When this option is
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> the error-messages (namely of the `msg`-field) can change
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specified, Nix will build the derivation instead. Thus, installation
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> between releases.
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from binaries falls back on installation from source. 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).
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- <span id="opt-readonly-mode">[`--readonly-mode`](#opt-readonly-mode)</span>\
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- `bar`
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When this option is used, no attempt is made to open the Nix
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database. Most Nix operations do need database access, so those
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operations will fail.
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- <span id="opt-arg">[`--arg`](#opt-arg)</span> *name* *value*\
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Only display a progress bar during the builds.
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This option is accepted by `nix-env`, `nix-instantiate`,
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`nix-shell` and `nix-build`. When evaluating Nix expressions, the
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expression evaluator will automatically try to call functions that
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it encounters. It can automatically call functions for which every
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argument has a [default
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value](@docroot@/language/constructs.md#functions) (e.g.,
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`{ argName ? defaultValue }: ...`). With `--arg`, you can also
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call functions that have arguments without a default value (or
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override a default value). That is, if the evaluator encounters a
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function with an argument named *name*, it will call it with value
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*value*.
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For instance, the top-level `default.nix` in Nixpkgs is actually a
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function:
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```nix
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{ # The system (e.g., `i686-linux') for which to build the packages.
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```
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So if you call this Nix expression (e.g., when you do `nix-env --install --attr
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pkgname`), the function will be called automatically using the
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value [`builtins.currentSystem`](@docroot@/language/builtins.md) for
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the `system` argument. You can override this using `--arg`, e.g.,
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`nix-env --install --attr pkgname --arg system \"i686-freebsd\"`. (Note that
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- <span id="opt-argstr">[`--argstr`](#opt-argstr)</span> *name* *value*\
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- <span id="opt-attr">[`--attr`](#opt-attr)</span> / `-A` *attrPath*\
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(`nix-instantiate`, `nix-build` and `nix-shell` only.)
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- <span id="opt-I">[`-I`](#opt-I)</span> *path*
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Add an entry to the [Nix expression search path](@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-nix-path).
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Paths added through `-I` take precedence over [`NIX_PATH`](@docroot@/command-ref/env-common.md#env-NIX_PATH).
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- <span id="opt-option">[`--option`](#opt-option)</span> *name* *value*
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- <span id="opt-repair">[`--repair`](#opt-repair)</span>
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