nix

New Nix CLI for flakes, builds and development shells.

NixOS

Last updated: 2026-05-11 Report error

Syntax

$nix [COMMAND] [OPTIONS]

Examples

$nix flake show

Examples

$nix build .#package

Examples

$nix develop

Typical use cases

Show flake

nix flake show

Build package

nix build .#package

Note Modern CLI replacing many legacy nix-* commands.

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