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| author | Sagar Patel <sagarmp@cs.unc.edu> | 2022-11-01 00:09:00 -0400 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-11-01 00:09:00 -0400 |
| commit | c068cce107b94f23c5288521770b2c807729a052 (patch) | |
| tree | be863aa52cdf3527ee6a1d6203045279da8b15c6 | |
| parent | 0edba4cc1e8887478ec24a4f07b8849036b8d67f (diff) | |
docs: drop shell prompt character for consistency
In addition to consistency, the fancy "Copy to clipboard" button on the
website will copy the prompt character. Retaining the prompt character
would mean having to edit each command after pasting in the terminal.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md b/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md index 2d007ca1b..d6d7a61c8 100644 --- a/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md +++ b/doc/manual/src/installation/installing-binary.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ The easiest way to install Nix is to run the following command: ```console -$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) +sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) ``` This will run the installer interactively (causing it to explain what @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ you can authenticate with `sudo`. To explicitly select a single-user installation on your system: ```console -$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon +sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --no-daemon ``` This will perform a single-user installation of Nix, meaning that `/nix` @@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ if it doesn’t already exist. If you don’t have `sudo`, you should manually create `/nix` first as root, e.g.: ```console -$ mkdir /nix -$ chown alice /nix +mkdir /nix +chown alice /nix ``` The install script will modify the first writable file from amongst @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ the install script to disable this behaviour. You can uninstall Nix simply by running: ```console -$ rm -rf /nix +rm -rf /nix ``` # Multi User Installation @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ You can instruct the installer to perform a multi-user installation on your system: ```console -$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon +sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon ``` The multi-user installation of Nix will create build users between the @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ These install scripts can be used the same as the main NixOS.org installation script: ```console -$ sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) +sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) ``` In the same directory of the install script are sha256 sums, and gpg @@ -270,10 +270,10 @@ it somewhere (e.g. in `/tmp`), and then run the script named `install` inside the binary tarball: ```console -$ cd /tmp -$ tar xfj nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2 -$ cd nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin -$ ./install +cd /tmp +tar xfj nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin.tar.bz2 +cd nix-1.8-x86_64-darwin +./install ``` If you need to edit the multi-user installation script to use different |