nix3-profile-wipe-history(1)

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Description

nix3-profile-wipe-history

Warning: This program is experimental 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

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

--dry-run

Show what this command would do without doing it.

--older-than age

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

--profile path

The profile to update.