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Expand Up @@ -57,17 +57,19 @@ It also comes with nixos/home-manager modules to use those databases.

### Usage as a command-not-found replacement

Nix-index provides a "command-not-found" script that can print for you the attribute path of unfound commands in your shell. You can either source `${pkgs.nix-index}/etc/command-not-found.sh` in your own shell init files (works for ZSH and Bash for as far as we know) or you can use the following in home-manager / `/etc/nixos/configuration.nix`:
Nix-index provides a "command-not-found" script that can print for you the attribute path of unfound commands in your shell. You can either source `${pkgs.nix-index}/etc/command-not-found.sh` in your own shell init files (works for ZSH and Bash for as far as we know) or you can use the following in your home-manager or NixOS configuration:

```nix
programs.command-not-found.enable = false;
# for home-manager, use programs.bash.initExtra instead
programs.bash.interactiveShellInit = ''
source ${pkgs.nix-index}/etc/profile.d/command-not-found.sh
'';
programs.command-not-found.enable = false;
programs.nix-index = {
enable = true;
enableZshIntegration = true;
enableBashIntegration = true;
enableFishIntegration = true;
};
```

Replace `bash` with `zsh` if you use `zsh`.
You can configure one or more shells as shown above.

Example output:

Expand All @@ -81,8 +83,6 @@ Or run it once with:
nix-shell -p blender.out --run ...
```

A [`home-manager` module](https://nix-community.github.io/home-manager/options.html#opt-programs.nix-index.enable) is now available to integrate `nix-index` with `bash`, `zsh`, and `fish` using this script.

You can also use `command-not-found.nu` as a Nushell hook by adding the
following to your Nushell config:

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