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# Store Paths
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A store path is a pair of a 20-byte digest and a name.
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Historically it is the triple of those two and also the store directory, but the modern implementation's internal representation is just the pair.
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This change is because in the vast majority of cases, the store dir is fully determined by the context in which the store path occurs.
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## String representation
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A store path is rendered as the concatenation of
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- the store directory
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- a path-separator (`/`)
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- the digest rendered as Base-32 (20 bytes becomes 32 bytes)
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- a hyphen (`-`)
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- the name
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Let's take the store path from the very beginning of this manual as an example:
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/nix/store/b6gvzjyb2pg0kjfwrjmg1vfhh54ad73z-firefox-33.1/
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This parses like so:
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/nix/store/b6gvzjyb2pg0kjfwrjmg1vfhh54ad73z-firefox-33.1/
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^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
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store dir digest name
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