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Bookmark or Share- Equivalent of *Nix 'which' command in PowerShell?Here is an actual *nix equivalent, i.e. it gives *nix-style output. Get-Command
| Select-Object -ExpandProperty Definition Just replace with whatever you're looking for. PS C:\> Get-Command notepad.exe | Select-Object -ExpandProperty Definition C:\Windows\system32\notepad.exe - How to use Nix to setup a development environment?There are a number of helpful articles online written by nix users that give more examples of using nix-shell, like this one from garbas.si. You may also find it useful to get a better idea of how nix packages work. There's a separate nixpkgs manual that covers in greater detail using nix to create package expressions. A quick skim of the 3rd ...
- ruby - What is the meaning of *nix? - Stack Overflow*nix just means operating systems that are like the old workhorse Unix. Some examples include Linux, FreeBSD, and Mac OS X (its kernel, Darwin, is based on BSD). The main relation between *nix and Ruby is just a pragmatic one; most Ruby developers seem to prefer to work on Unix-like OSes (typically Linux or Mac OS X).
- Nix overlays and override pattern - Stack OverflowAnd as Nix is a functional language you also don't have variables only bindings which you can shadow in a different scope. But that still doesn't explain how overlays achieve their "magic". Through ~/.config/nixpkgs I have configured a test overlay approximately like this:
- When and how should default.nix, shell.nix and release.nix be used?@David天宇Wong there is a difference between nix build and nix-build (note the space). The stand-alone nix tool is for flakes (and some utilities like nix show-derivation etc), while the nix-* binaries are for non-flake Nix. Summary: this article is still accurate in Nov 2022, although it could do with a this is about non-flake Nix notice. –
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