Man1 - kpsewhich.1

kpsewhich - standalone path lookup and and expansion for kpathsea

kpsewhich [/options/] [/filenames/]

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.

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.

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