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Name  Synopsis  Options  Logging-related options  Miscellaneous global options 

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

Name

nix store - manipulate a Nix store

Synopsis

nix store [option…] subcommand

where subcommand is one of the following:

nix store add - Add a file or directory to the Nix store

nix store add-file - Deprecated. Use nix store add --mode flat instead.

nix store add-path - Deprecated alias to nix store add.

nix store cat - print the contents of a file in the Nix store on stdout

nix store copy-log - copy build logs between Nix stores

nix store copy-sigs - copy store path signatures from substituters

nix store delete - delete paths from the Nix store

nix store diff-closures - show what packages and versions were added and removed between two closures

nix store dump-path - serialise a store path to stdout in NAR format

nix store gc - perform garbage collection on a Nix store

nix store info - test whether a store can be accessed

nix store ls - show information about a path in the Nix store

nix store make-content-addressed - rewrite a path or closure to content-addressed form

nix store optimise - replace identical files in the store by hard links

nix store path-from-hash-part - get a store path from its hash part

nix store prefetch-file - download a file into the Nix store

nix store repair - repair store paths

nix store sign - sign store paths with a local key

nix store verify - verify the integrity of store paths

Options

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Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.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