---
name: "nrniv"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "neuron"
version: "8.2.6-1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/nrniv"
---

# nrniv(1)

Command-line interface for NEURON

## NAME

nrniv - Command-line interface for NEURON

## SYNOPSIS

**nrniv** \[**FILE**\] \[**ARGS**\]

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the **nrniv** command.

**nrniv** is an interactive interface to the NEURON simulation environment for computational models of physiological neurons.

If started without parameters, it will display an interactive hoc interpreter. **nrniv** can be toggled to use Python instead by using the **-python** flag.

If a .hoc file is supplied as an argument, the file will be executed immediately, and no interactive hoc interpreter will be shown.

## MORE INFORMATION

Check out the NEURON programmer's reference at *www.neuron.yale.edu/neuron/static/py\_doc/index.html*

## AUTHOR

NEURON was written by Michael Hines, John W. Moore, Ted Carnevale and others.

This manual page was written by Matthias Klumpp \<mak@debian.org\>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).