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These are updates to several links in the documentation that are not currently pointing to existing anchors in the documentation, these were found using the unfinished version of the mdbook-linkchecker we are working on. Fixes include pointing them to the correct anchor, inserting anchors (in updated html5 style, though debatable) and in the case of the historical release notes, removing them, fixing #809. Change-Id: If4ef89dc89506aa131a764312d97a86179ccd6f5
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Note: this command's interface is based heavily around installables, which you may want to read about first (nix --help).
Examples
-
Start a shell providing
youtube-dlfrom thenixpkgsflake:# nix shell nixpkgs#youtube-dl # youtube-dl --version 2020.11.01.1 -
Start a shell providing GNU Hello from NixOS 20.03:
# nix shell nixpkgs/nixos-20.03#hello -
Run GNU Hello:
# nix shell nixpkgs#hello --command hello --greeting 'Hi everybody!' Hi everybody! -
Run multiple commands in a shell environment:
# nix shell nixpkgs#gnumake --command sh -c "cd src && make" -
Run GNU Hello in a chroot store:
# nix shell --store ~/my-nix nixpkgs#hello --command hello -
Start a shell providing GNU Hello in a chroot store:
# nix shell --store ~/my-nix nixpkgs#hello nixpkgs#bashInteractive --command bashNote that it's necessary to specify
bashexplicitly because your default shell (e.g./bin/bash) generally will not exist in the chroot.
Description
nix shell runs a command in an environment in which the $PATH variable
provides the specified installables. If no command is specified, it starts the
default shell of your user account specified by $SHELL.
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