<story><title>Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials</title><url>https://tinkering.xyz/nix-docs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peter_l_downs</author><text>The nix package search website is OK, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t let you filter by the names of installed binaries. A lot of the time, you have a question like &amp;quot;what nixpkgs attribute do i install in order to get the `python3` command&amp;quot;. I recently wrote a command line tool that allows you to do this. It uses the same elasticsearch index as the search website, but allows more powerful filtering. If anyone is thinking of getting into nix, please consider trying it out!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;peterldowns&amp;#x2F;nix-search-cli&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;peterldowns&amp;#x2F;nix-search-cli&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Valodim</author><text>Relatedly, check out comma. It&amp;#x27;s basically a shortcut prefix command that will search packages for the binary you want to run (via nix-index), and gives you an interactive choice if there are multiple. Which package was drill in again? No matter, I&amp;#x27;ll just prefix a comma :)&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nix-community&amp;#x2F;comma&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;nix-community&amp;#x2F;comma&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Nix journey part 0: Learning and reference materials</title><url>https://tinkering.xyz/nix-docs/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>peter_l_downs</author><text>The nix package search website is OK, but it doesn&amp;#x27;t let you filter by the names of installed binaries. A lot of the time, you have a question like &amp;quot;what nixpkgs attribute do i install in order to get the `python3` command&amp;quot;. I recently wrote a command line tool that allows you to do this. It uses the same elasticsearch index as the search website, but allows more powerful filtering. If anyone is thinking of getting into nix, please consider trying it out!&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;peterldowns&amp;#x2F;nix-search-cli&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;peterldowns&amp;#x2F;nix-search-cli&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zach_mitchell</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve also noticed this. If you install `rustc` it says that you get `rust-gdb`, but that&amp;#x27;s really just a wrapper script around `gdb`, which it doesn&amp;#x27;t install.</text></comment>