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nix3-profile-wipe-history(1)

delete non-current versions of a profile

Warning
This program is experimental ⟨@docroot@/development/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-nix-command⟩ and its interface is subject to change.

Name

nix profile wipe-history - delete non-current versions of a profile

Synopsis

nix profile wipe-history [option…]

Examples

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Delete all versions of the default profile older than 100 days:

# nix profile wipe-history --profile /tmp/profile --older-than 100d
removing profile version 515
removing profile version 514

Description

This command deletes non-current versions of a profile, making it impossible to roll back to these versions. By default, all non-current versions are deleted. With --older-than Nd, all non-current versions older than N days are deleted.

Options

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--dry-run ⟨#opt-dry-run⟩

Show what this command would do without doing it.

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--older-than ⟨#opt-older-than⟩ age

Delete versions older than the specified age. age must be in the format Nd, where N denotes a number of days.

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--profile ⟨#opt-profile⟩ path

The profile to operate on.

Logging-related options

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--debug ⟨#opt-debug⟩

Set the logging verbosity level to ‘debug’.

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--log-format ⟨#opt-log-format⟩ format

Set the format of log output; one of raw, internal-json, bar or bar-with-logs.

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--print-build-logs ⟨#opt-print-build-logs⟩ / -L

Print full build logs on standard error.

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--quiet ⟨#opt-quiet⟩

Decrease the logging verbosity level.

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--verbose ⟨#opt-verbose⟩ / -v

Increase the logging verbosity level.

Miscellaneous global options

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--help ⟨#opt-help⟩

Show usage information.

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--offline ⟨#opt-offline⟩

Disable substituters and consider all previously downloaded files up-to-date.

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--option ⟨#opt-option⟩ name value

Set the Nix configuration setting name to value (overriding nix.conf).

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--refresh ⟨#opt-refresh⟩

Consider all previously downloaded files out-of-date.

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--version ⟨#opt-version⟩

Show version information.

Note

See man nix.conf ⟨@docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#command-line-flags⟩ for overriding configuration settings with command line flags.

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