Man1 - kpsewhich.1

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NAME

kpsewhich - standalone path lookup and and expansion for kpathsea

SYNOPSIS

kpsewhich [/options/] [/filenames/]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Kpathsea: A library for path searching.

kpsewhich is used as a standalone front-end of the kpathsea library that can be used to examine variables and find files. When the -format option is not given, the search path used when looking for a file is inferred from the name given, by looking for a known extension. If no known extension is found, the search path for TeX source files is used.

OPTIONS

kpsewhich accepts the following options:

*-debug*/ num/
Set debugging flags.
*-D*/ num/
Use a base resolution of num; the default, set by the installer, is typically 600.
*-dpi*/ num/
As -D.
*-engine*/ string/
Set $engine in the environment, which is used in some search paths.
*-expand-braces*/ string/
Print variable and brace expansion of string.
*-expand-path*/ string/
Print complete path expansion of string.
*-expand-var*/ string/
Print variable expansion of string.
*-format*/ name/
Use file type name. See the info manual for a list of valid names, or use the -help option to print the list.
-help
Print help message and exit.
-interactive
Ask for additional filenames to look up.
*-mktex*/ fmt/
enable mktex/fmt/ generation. (/fmt/=pk/mf/tex/tfm)
*-mode*/ string/
Set device name for $MAKETEX_MODE to string; no default.
-must-exist
Search the disk as well as ls-R if necessary.
*-no-mktex*/ fmt/
disable mktex/fmt/ generation. (/fmt/=pk/mf/tex/tfm)
*-path*/ string/
Search in the path string.
*-progname*/ string/
Set program name to string.
*-show-path*/ name/
Output search path for file type name. See the info manual for a list of valid names, or use the -help option to print the list.
*-var-value*/ variable/
Print the expansion of variable.
-version
Print version information and exit.

SEE ALSO

*mktexlsr*(1), *mktexmf*(1), *mktexpk*(1), *mktextfm*(1).

Author: dt

Created: 2022-02-22 Tue 16:26