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<sect1 id="sec-common-options"><title>Common options</title>
<para>Most Nix commands accept the following command-line options:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><option>--help</option></term>
<listitem><para>Prints out a summary of the command syntax and
exits.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--version</option></term>
<listitem><para>Prints out the Nix version number on standard output
and exits.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--verbose</option> / <option>-v</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Increases the level of verbosity of diagnostic messages
printed on standard error. For each Nix operation, the information
printed on standard output is well-defined; any diagnostic
information is printed on standard error, never on standard
output.</para>
<para>This option may be specified repeatedly. Currently, the
following verbosity levels exist:</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>0</term>
<listitem><para><quote>Errors only</quote>: only print messages
explaining why the Nix invocation failed.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>1</term>
<listitem><para><quote>Informational</quote>: print
<emphasis>useful</emphasis> messages about what Nix is doing.
This is the default.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>2</term>
<listitem><para><quote>Talkative</quote>: print more informational
messages.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>3</term>
<listitem><para><quote>Chatty</quote>: print even more
informational messages.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>4</term>
<listitem><para><quote>Debug</quote>: print debug
information.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>5</term>
<listitem><para><quote>Vomit</quote>: print vast amounts of debug
information.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--no-build-output</option> / <option>-Q</option></term>
<listitem><para>By default, output written by builders to standard
output and standard error is echoed to the Nix 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
<filename><replaceable>prefix</replaceable>/nix/var/log/nix</filename>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="opt-max-jobs"><term><option>--max-jobs</option> / <option>-j</option></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the maximum number of build jobs that Nix will
perform in parallel to the specified number. The default is 1. A
higher value is useful on SMP systems or to exploit I/O latency.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--keep-going</option> / <option>-k</option></term>
<listitem><para>Keep going in case of failed builds, to the
greatest extent possible. That is, if building an input of some
derivation fails, Nix will still build the other inputs, but not the
derivation itself. Without this option, Nix stops if any build
fails (except for builds of substitutes), possibly killing builds in
progress (in case of parallel or distributed builds).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--keep-failed</option> / <option>-K</option></term>
<listitem><para>Specifies that in case of a build failure, the
temporary directory (usually in <filename>/tmp</filename>) in which
the build takes place should not be deleted. The path of the build
directory is printed as an informational message.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--fallback</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>Whenever Nix attempts to realise a derivation for which a
closure is already known, but this closure cannot be realised, fall
back on normalising the derivation.</para>
<para>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, Nix will build the derivation instead. Thus, binary
installation falls back on a source installation. 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).</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>--readonly-mode</option></term>
<listitem><para>When this option is used, no attempt is made to open
the Nix database. Most Nix operations do need database access, so
those operations will fail.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry id="opt-log-type"><term><option>--log-type</option>
<replaceable>type</replaceable></term>
<listitem>
<para>This option determines how the output written to standard
error is formatted. Nix’s diagnostic messages are typically
<emphasis>nested</emphasis>. For instance, when tracing Nix
expression evaluation (<command>nix-env -vvvvv</command>, messages
from subexpressions are nested inside their parent expressions. Nix
builder output is also often nested. For instance, the Nix Packages
generic builder nests the various build tasks (unpack, configure,
compile, etc.), and the GNU Make in <literal>stdenv-linux</literal>
has been patched to provide nesting for recursive Make
invocations.</para>
<para><replaceable>type</replaceable> can be one of the
following:
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term><literal>pretty</literal></term>
<listitem><para>Pretty-print the output, indicating different
nesting levels using spaces. This is the
default.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal>escapes</literal></term>
<listitem><para>Indicate nesting using escape codes that can be
interpreted by the <command>log2xml</command> tool in the Nix
source distribution. The resulting XML file can be fed into the
<command>log2html.xsl</command> stylesheet to create an HTML
file that can be browsed interactively, using Javascript to
expand and collapse parts of the output.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal>flat</literal></term>
<listitem><para>Remove all nesting.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</sect1>
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