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flox develop command

NAME

flox-develop - launch development shell for current project

SYNOPSIS

flox [ <general-options> ] develop [ <options> ]

DESCRIPTION

Launch sub-shell configured for development environment using the flox.nix or Nix expression file as found in the current directory.

OPTIONS

General Options

Many flox commands wrap Nix commands of the same name, and will correspondingly pass on options and arguments directly to the underlying nix invocation. For more information on the options supported by specific Nix commands please invoke flox nix <command> help.

The following options are used specifically by flox and must be specified before the <command> argument.

-v, --verbose
Verbose mode. Invoke multiple times for increasing detail.

--debug
Debug mode. Invoke multiple times for increasing detail.

-V, --version
Print flox version.

--prefix
Print flox installation prefix / Nix store path. (flox internal use only.)

--bash-passthru
Force execution in flox-bash (flox internal use only.)

Development Options

The following options are supported by all Development Commands:

[(-A|--attr) <package>]
Selects package (aka “attrPath”) to be used. If not provided flox will prompt for you to select from the list of known packages.

[--stability <stability>]
Selects the set of nixpkgs to be used as a basis