nix-instantiate

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Create store derivations from nix expressions. See also: `nix eval`.

Options (1)

-E, --exprboolean

Evaluate an expression

Example: nix-instantiate --eval {{[-E|--expr]}} {{expression}}

Instantiate a store derivation from a Nix file

nix-instantiate path/to/file.nix

Evaluate an expression

nix-instantiate --eval [-E|--expr] expression

Evaluate with machine readable output

nix-instantiate --eval --xml [-E|--expr] expression

Raw output, output of the function must be a string

nix-instantiate --eval --raw [-E|--expr] expression

Evaluate a Nix expression from a specified file

nix-instantiate --eval path/to/file.nix