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manual: nix-shell: Elaborate on using -p with expressions #3220

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@nh2 nh2 commented Nov 10, 2019

This documents the outcome of the change in #454 (comment):

We can also automatically add parentheses in the generated buildInputs, so you can type nix-shell -p "expr" instead of `"(expr").

This not being in the man pages and manual so far has always confused me.

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manual: nix-shell: Elaborate on using -p with expressions.
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This documents the outcome of the change in
NixOS#454:

> We can also automatically add parentheses in the generated
> `buildInputs`, so you can type `nix-shell -p "expr"`
> instead of `"(expr").
@edolstra edolstra merged commit fd900c4 into NixOS:master Nov 14, 2019
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