Not on Nix right now but I believe this also works:
readFile (./foo + name + /bar)- Bryan On Fri, 16 Oct 2015 11:36:22 +0100 Thomas Hunger <[email protected]> wrote: > Do you need toPath? > > lib.readFile "./foo/${name}/bar" > > seems to work for me. > > On 16 October 2015 at 11:10, Bas van Dijk <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > In a Nix expression I would like to read a file where the file path is > > based on a variable. So I would like to do something like this: > > > > with builtins; > > readFile (toPath ("./foo/" + name + "/bar")) > > > > Unfortunately this doesn't work since toPath expects a string which > > represents an absolute path. > > > > Is there any other way to do this? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bas
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