diff --git a/src/Check.hs b/src/Check.hs
index 1636c9a..fec3359 100644
--- a/src/Check.hs
+++ b/src/Check.hs
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 module Check
   ( result,
     -- exposed for testing:
-    hasVersion
+    hasVersion,
+    versionWithoutPath
   )
 where
 
@@ -90,13 +91,36 @@ checkTestsBuildReport False =
 checkTestsBuildReport True =
   "- The tests defined in `passthru.tests`, if any, passed"
 
+versionWithoutPath :: String -> Text -> String
+versionWithoutPath resultPath expectedVersion =
+  -- We want to match expectedVersion, except when it is preceeded by
+  -- the new store path (as wrappers contain the full store path which
+  -- often includes the version)
+  -- This can be done with negative lookbehind e.g
+  -- /^(?<!${storePathWithoutVersion})${version}/
+  -- Note we also escape the version with \Q/\E for grep -P
+  let storePath = fromMaybe (T.pack resultPath) $ T.stripPrefix "/nix/store/" (T.pack resultPath) in
+  case T.breakOn expectedVersion storePath of
+    (_, "") ->
+      -- no version in prefix, just match version
+      "\\Q"
+        <> T.unpack expectedVersion
+        <> "\\E"
+    (storePrefix, _) ->
+      "(?<!\\Q"
+        <> T.unpack storePrefix
+        <> "\\E)\\Q"
+        <> T.unpack expectedVersion
+        <> "\\E"
+
 foundVersionInOutputs :: Text -> String -> IO (Maybe Text)
 foundVersionInOutputs expectedVersion resultPath =
   hush
     <$> runExceptT
       ( do
+          let regex = versionWithoutPath resultPath expectedVersion
           (exitCode, _) <-
-            proc "grep" ["-r", T.unpack expectedVersion, resultPath]
+            proc "grep" ["-rP", regex, resultPath]
               & ourReadProcessInterleaved
           case exitCode of
             ExitSuccess ->
diff --git a/test/CheckSpec.hs b/test/CheckSpec.hs
index 2e37969..c7b69ad 100644
--- a/test/CheckSpec.hs
+++ b/test/CheckSpec.hs
@@ -25,3 +25,8 @@ spec = do
       Check.hasVersion (T.pack "2.345 is the version") (T.pack "2.34") `shouldBe` False
       Check.hasVersion (T.pack "12.34 is the version") (T.pack "2.34") `shouldBe` False
       Check.hasVersion seaweedVersion234 (T.pack "2.35") `shouldBe` False
+
+    it "negative lookahead construction" do
+      Check.versionWithoutPath "/nix/store/z9l2xakz7cgw6yfh83nh542pvc0g4rkq-geeqie-2.0.1" (T.pack "2.0.1") `shouldBe` "(?<!\\Qz9l2xakz7cgw6yfh83nh542pvc0g4rkq-geeqie-\\E)\\Q2.0.1\\E"
+      Check.versionWithoutPath "/nix/store/z9l2xakz7cgw6yfh83nh542pvc0g4rkq-abc" (T.pack "2.0.1") `shouldBe` "\\Q2.0.1\\E"
+      Check.versionWithoutPath "/nix/store/z9l2xakz7cgw6yfh83nh542pvc0g4rkq-2.0.1-dev" (T.pack "2.0.1") `shouldBe` "(?<!\\Qz9l2xakz7cgw6yfh83nh542pvc0g4rkq-\\E)\\Q2.0.1\\E"