How to make a nix file which returns a derivation into an executable file?

[sternenseemann]

You can also achieve this without a wrapper, but I wouldn’t recommend it, as it’s not officially supported and probably won’t remain stable.

There was some exploration in this direction (including some positively disgusting shebangs) in this thread:

. / c u r s e d . n i x

Edit: Want to execute a .nix like “./whatever”? Use this and add parameters to the inner arguments. There must always be at least one. #! /usr/bin/env nix-shell #! nix-shell -i "nix-shell -v" -p "" =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This was edited nonlinearly and may contain inconsistencies. To my massive irritation, calling nix-shell on a nix file that isn’t in $PWD fails: [nix-shell:/run/user/1000/tmp.6T3BRBy0aN/lol]$ ../uncursed.nix evaluating file '/nix/store/ppgcg2ns9sqq5dqzm…