[Nix-dev] Change default shell of `nix-shell`

Georges Dubus georges.dubus at gmail.com
Thu Dec 4 13:38:51 CET 2014


I use fish, with is not compatible at all with bash, and will make anything
crash if set as the default shell for anything on nixos.

To use it with nix-shell, I just wrote an alias: nix-fish="nix-shell
--command=fish"

Georges Dubus

2014-12-04 9:49 GMT+01:00 Luca Bruno <lethalman88 at gmail.com>:

> On 04/12/2014 08:12, YCH wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > How could I change default shell(command) of `nix-shell`?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> Try NIX_BUILD_SHELL=... nix-shell
>
> However take in mind that most packages in nixpkgs assume bash.
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