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darwin-rebuild — Rebuild and switch to a Nix-based Darwin (macOS) system configuration. More information: <https://gi

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Problem

How to use the darwin-rebuild command: Rebuild and switch to a Nix-based Darwin (macOS) system configuration. More information: <https://github.com/nix-darwin/nix-darwin>.

Solution

darwin-rebuild — Rebuild and switch to a Nix-based Darwin (macOS) system configuration. More information: <https://github.com/nix-darwin/nix-darwin>.

Rebuild and switch to the specified Darwin configuration:

darwin-rebuild switch --flake {{path/to/flake}}

Build the configuration but don't switch to it:

darwin-rebuild build --flake {{path/to/flake}}

Display help:

darwin-rebuild --help

Code Snippets

Rebuild and switch to the specified Darwin configuration

darwin-rebuild switch --flake {{path/to/flake}}

Build the configuration but don't switch to it

darwin-rebuild build --flake {{path/to/flake}}

Display help

darwin-rebuild --help

Context

tldr-pages: osx/darwin-rebuild

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