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-rw-r--r--src/nix-env/nix-env.cc2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc b/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc
index 3dfecb2d7313..a8d9076cfb8d 100644
--- a/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc
+++ b/src/nix-env/nix-env.cc
@@ -1270,7 +1270,7 @@ void run(Strings args)
         else if (arg == "--profile" || arg == "-p")
             globals.profile = absPath(needArg(i, args, arg));
         else if (arg == "--file" || arg == "-f")
-            globals.instSource.nixExprPath = absPath(needArg(i, args, arg));
+            globals.instSource.nixExprPath = lookupFileArg(globals.state, needArg(i, args, arg));
         else if (arg == "--switch-profile" || arg == "-S")
             op = opSwitchProfile;
         else if (arg == "--switch-generation" || arg == "-G")