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# Name
`nix-store --realise` - realise specified store paths
# Synopsis
`nix-store` {`--realise` | `-r`} *paths…* [`--dry-run`]
# Description
Each of *paths* is processed as follows:
- If the path is already [valid], do nothing.
- If the path leads to a [store derivation]:
1. Realise the store derivation file itself, as a regular store path.
2. Realise its [output paths]:
- Try to fetch from [substituters] the [store objects] associated with the output paths in the store derivation's [closure].
- With [content-addressed derivations] (experimental): Determine the output paths to realise by querying build certificates in the [Nix database].
- For any store paths that cannot be substituted, produce the required store objects by first realising all outputs of the derivation's dependencies and then running the derivation's [`builder`](@docroot@/language/derivations.md#attr-builder) executable.
- Otherwise: Try to fetch the associated [store objects] in the paths' [closure] from [substituters].
If no substitutes are available and no store derivation is given, realisation fails.
[store paths]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-path
[valid]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-validity
[store derivation]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-derivation
[output paths]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-output-path
[store objects]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-object
[closure]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-closure
[substituters]: @docroot@/command-ref/conf-file.md#conf-substituters
[content-addressed derivations]: @docroot@/contributing/experimental-features.md#xp-feature-ca-derivations
[Nix database]: @docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-nix-database
The resulting paths are printed on standard output.
For non-derivation arguments, the argument itself is printed.
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# Options
- `--dry-run`\
Print on standard error a description of what packages would be
built or downloaded, without actually performing the operation.
- `--ignore-unknown`\
If a non-derivation path does not have a substitute, then silently
ignore it.
- `--check`\
This option allows you to check whether a derivation is
deterministic. It rebuilds the specified derivation and checks
whether the result is bitwise-identical with the existing outputs,
printing an error if thats not the case. The outputs of the
specified derivation must already exist. When used with `-K`, if an
output path is not identical to the corresponding output from the
previous build, the new output path is left in
`/nix/store/name.check.`
{{#include ./opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../opt-common.md}}
{{#include ../env-common.md}}
# Examples
This operation is typically used to build [store derivation]s produced by
[`nix-instantiate`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-instantiate.md):
```console
$ nix-store --realise $(nix-instantiate ./test.nix)
/nix/store/31axcgrlbfsxzmfff1gyj1bf62hvkby2-aterm-2.3.1
```
This is essentially what [`nix-build`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-build.md) does.
To test whether a previously-built derivation is deterministic:
```console
$ nix-build '<nixpkgs>' --attr hello --check -K
```
Use [`nix-store --read-log`](./read-log.md) to show the stderr and stdout of a build:
```console
$ nix-store --read-log $(nix-instantiate ./test.nix)
```