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This program is experimental and its interface is subject to change.

Name

nix profile wipe-history - delete non-current versions of a profile

Synopsis

nix profile wipe-history [option…]

Examples

Delete all versions of the default profile older than 100 days:

# nix profile wipe-history --profile /tmp/profile --older-than 100d
removing profile version 515
removing profile version 514

Description

This command deletes non-current versions of a profile, making it impossible to roll back to these versions. By default, all non-current versions are deleted. With --older-than Nd, all non-current versions older than N days are deleted.

Options

--dry-run

Show what this command would do without doing it.

--older-than age

Delete versions older than the specified age. age must be in the format Nd, where N denotes a number of days.

--profile path

The profile to operate on.

Logging-related options

--debug

Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.

--log-format format

Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.

--print-build-logs / -L

Print full build logs on standard error.

--quiet

Decrease the logging verbosity level.

--verbose / -v

Increase the logging verbosity level.

Miscellaneous global options

--help

Show usage information.

--offline

Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.

--option name value

Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).

--refresh

Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.

--version

Show version information.

Note

See man nix.conf for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.


Updated 2026-06-01 - jenkler.se | uex.se