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<h1 id="common-options">Common Options</h1>
<p>Most commands in Lix accept the following command-line options:</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-help"><a href="#opt-help"><code>--help</code></a></span></li>
</ul>
<p>Prints out a summary of the command syntax and exits.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-version"><a href="#opt-version"><code>--version</code></a></span></li>
</ul>
<p>Prints out the Lix version number on standard output and exits.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-verbose"><a href="#opt-verbose"><code>--verbose</code></a></span> / <code>-v</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Increases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages printed on standard error.
For each Lix operation, the information printed on standard output is well-defined;
any diagnostic information is printed on standard error, never on standard output.</p>
<p>This option may be specified repeatedly.
Currently, the following verbosity levels exist:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code>0</code> “Errors only”</p>
<p>Only print messages explaining why the Lix invocation failed.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>1</code> “Informational”</p>
<p>Print <em>useful</em> messages about what Lix is doing.
This is the default.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>2</code> “Talkative”</p>
<p>Print more informational messages.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>3</code> “Chatty”</p>
<p>Print even more informational messages.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>4</code> “Debug”</p>
<p>Print debug information.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>5</code> “Vomit”</p>
<p>Print vast amounts of debug information.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span id="opt-quiet"><a href="#opt-quiet"><code>--quiet</code></a></span></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Decreases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages printed on standard error.
This is the inverse option to <code>-v</code> / <code>--verbose</code>.</p>
<p>This option may be specified repeatedly.
See the previous verbosity levels list.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-log-format"><a href="#opt-log-format"><code>--log-format</code></a></span> <em>format</em></li>
</ul>
<p>This option can be used to change the output of the log format, with <em>format</em> being one of:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code>raw</code></p>
<p>This is the raw format, as outputted by nix-build.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>internal-json</code></p>
<p>Outputs the logs in a structured manner.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="admonition warning">
<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p>While the schema itself is relatively stable, the format of
the error-messages (namely of the <code>msg</code>-field) can change
between releases.</p>
</div>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code>bar</code></p>
<p>Only display a progress bar during the builds.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code>bar-with-logs</code></p>
<p>Display the raw logs, with the progress bar at the bottom.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><span id="opt-no-build-output"><a href="#opt-no-build-output"><code>--no-build-output</code></a></span> / <code>-Q</code></p>
</li>
</ul>
<p>By default, output written by builders to standard output and standard error is echoed to the Lix command's standard error.
This option suppresses this behaviour.
Note that the builder's standard output and error are always written to a log file in <code>prefix/nix/var/log/nix</code>.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-max-jobs"><a href="#opt-max-jobs"><code>--max-jobs</code></a></span> / <code>-j</code> <em>number</em></li>
</ul>
<p>Sets the maximum number of build jobs that Lix will perform in parallel to the specified number.
Specify <code>auto</code> to use the number of CPUs in the system.
The default is specified by the <code>max-jobs</code> configuration setting, which itself defaults to <code>1</code>.
A higher value is useful on SMP systems or to exploit I/O latency.</p>
<p>Setting it to <code>0</code> disallows building on the local machine, which is useful when you want builds to happen only on remote builders.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-cores"><a href="#opt-cores"><code>--cores</code></a></span></li>
</ul>
<p>Sets the value of the <code>NIX_BUILD_CORES</code> environment variable in the invocation of builders.
Builders can use this variable at their discretion to control the maximum amount of parallelism.
For instance, in Nixpkgs, if the derivation attribute <code>enableParallelBuilding</code> is set to <code>true</code>, the builder passes the <code>-jN</code> flag to GNU Make.
It defaults to the value of the <code>cores</code> configuration setting, if set, or <code>1</code> otherwise.
The value <code>0</code> means that the builder should use all available CPU cores in the system.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-max-silent-time"><a href="#opt-max-silent-time"><code>--max-silent-time</code></a></span></li>
</ul>
<p>Sets the maximum number of seconds that a builder can go without producing any data on standard output or standard error.
The default is specified by the <code>max-silent-time</code> configuration setting.
<code>0</code> means no time-out.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-timeout"><a href="#opt-timeout"><code>--timeout</code></a></span></li>
</ul>
<p>Sets the maximum number of seconds that a builder can run.
The default is specified by the <code>timeout</code> configuration setting.
<code>0</code> means no timeout.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-keep-going"><a href="#opt-keep-going"><code>--keep-going</code></a></span> / <code>-k</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Keep going in case of failed builds, to the greatest extent possible.
That is, if building an input of some derivation fails, Lix will still build the other inputs, but not the derivation itself.
Without this option, Lix stops if any build fails (except for builds of substitutes), possibly killing builds in progress (in case of parallel or distributed builds).</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-keep-failed"><a href="#opt-keep-failed"><code>--keep-failed</code></a></span> / <code>-K</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Specifies that in case of a build failure, the temporary directory (usually in <code>/tmp</code>) in which the build takes place should not be deleted.
The path of the build directory is printed as an informational message.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-fallback"><a href="#opt-fallback"><code>--fallback</code></a></span></li>
</ul>
<p>Whenever Lix attempts to build a derivation for which substitutes are known for each output path, but realising the output paths through the substitutes fails, fall back on building the derivation.</p>
<p>The most common scenario in which this is useful is when we have registered substitutes in order to perform binary distribution from, say, a network repository.
If the repository is down, the realisation of the derivation will fail.
When this option is specified, Lix will build the derivation instead.
Thus, installation from binaries falls back on installation from source.
This option is not the default since it is generally not desirable for a transient failure in obtaining the substitutes to lead to a full build from source (with the related consumption of resources).</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-readonly-mode"><a href="#opt-readonly-mode"><code>--readonly-mode</code></a></span></li>
</ul>
<p>When this option is used, no attempt is made to open the Lix database.
Most Lix operations do need database access, so those operations will fail.</p>
<div class="admonition warning">
<p class="admonition-title">Warning</p>
<p>FIXME(Lix): sometimes you want <code>--store dummy</code> instead, because this option sometimes doesn't work. Document why this is.</p>
</div>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-arg"><a href="#opt-arg"><code>--arg</code></a></span> <em>name</em> <em>value</em></li>
</ul>
<p>This option is accepted by <code>nix-env</code>, <code>nix-instantiate</code>, <code>nix-shell</code> and <code>nix-build</code>.
When evaluating Nix expressions, the expression evaluator will automatically try to call functions that it encounters.
It can automatically call functions for which every argument has a <a href="../../language/constructs/#functions">default value</a> (e.g., <code>{ argName ? defaultValue }: ...</code>).</p>
<p>With <code>--arg</code>, you can also call functions that have arguments without a default value (or override a default value).
That is, if the evaluator encounters a function with an argument named <em>name</em>, it will call it with value <em>value</em>.</p>
<p>For instance, the top-level <code>default.nix</code> in Nixpkgs is actually a function:</p>
<div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><code><span class="p">{</span> <span class="c1">## The system (e.g., `i686-linux&#39;) for which to build the packages.</span>
system <span class="o">?</span> <span class="nb">builtins</span><span class="o">.</span>currentSystem
<span class="o">...</span>
<span class="p">}:</span> <span class="o">...</span>
</code></pre></div>
<p>So if you call this Nix expression (e.g., when you do <code>nix-env --install --attr pkgname</code>), the function will be called automatically using the value <a href="../../language/builtins/"><code>builtins.currentSystem</code></a> for the <code>system</code> argument.
You can override this using <code>--arg</code>, e.g., <code>nix-env --install --attr pkgname --arg system "i686-freebsd"</code>.
(Note that since the argument is a Nix string literal, you have to escape the quotes.)</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-argstr"><a href="#opt-argstr"><code>--argstr</code></a></span> <em>name</em> <em>value</em></li>
</ul>
<p>This option is like <code>--arg</code>, only the value is not a Nix expression but a string.
So instead of <code>--arg system "i686-linux"</code> (the outer quotes are to keep the shell happy) you can say <code>--argstr system i686-linux</code>.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-attr"><a href="#opt-attr"><code>--attr</code></a></span> / <code>-A</code> <em>attrPath</em></li>
</ul>
<p>Select an attribute from the top-level Nix expression being evaluated.
(<code>nix-env</code>, <code>nix-instantiate</code>, <code>nix-build</code> and <code>nix-shell</code> only.)
The <em>attribute path</em> <em>attrPath</em> is a sequence of attribute names separated by dots.
For instance, given a top-level Nix expression <em>e</em>, the attribute path <code>xorg.xorgserver</code> would cause the expression <code>e.xorg.xorgserver</code> to be used.
See <a href="../nix-env/install/"><code>nix-env --install</code></a> for some concrete examples.</p>
<p>In addition to attribute names, you can also specify array indices.
For instance, the attribute path <code>foo.3.bar</code> selects the <code>bar</code>
attribute of the fourth element of the array in the <code>foo</code> attribute
of the top-level expression.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-expr"><a href="#opt-expr"><code>--expr</code></a></span> / <code>-E</code></li>
</ul>
<p>Interpret the command line arguments as a list of Nix expressions to be parsed and evaluated, rather than as a list of file names of Nix expressions.
(<code>nix-instantiate</code>, <code>nix-build</code> and <code>nix-shell</code> only.)</p>
<p>For <code>nix-shell</code>, this option is commonly used to give you a shell in which you can build the packages returned by the expression.
If you want to get a shell which contain the <em>built</em> packages ready for use, give your expression to the <code>nix-shell --packages</code> convenience flag instead.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-I"><a href="#opt-I"><code>-I</code></a></span> <em>path</em></li>
</ul>
<p>Add an entry to the <a href="../conf-file/#conf-nix-path">Nix expression search path</a>.
This option may be given multiple times.
Paths added through <code>-I</code> take precedence over <a href="../env-common/#env-NIX_PATH"><code>NIX_PATH</code></a>.</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-option"><a href="#opt-option"><code>--option</code></a></span> <em>name</em> <em>value</em></li>
</ul>
<p>Set the Lix configuration option <em>name</em> to <em>value</em>.
This overrides settings in the Lix configuration file (see nix.conf(5)).</p>
<ul>
<li><span id="opt-repair"><a href="#opt-repair"><code>--repair</code></a></span></li>
</ul>
<p>Fix corrupted or missing store paths by redownloading or rebuilding them.
Note that this is slow because it requires computing a cryptographic hash of the contents of every path in the closure of the build.
Also note the warning under <code>nix-store --repair-path</code>.</p>
<div class="admonition note">
<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>See <a href="../conf-file/#command-line-flags"><code>man nix.conf</code></a> for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.</p>
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