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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 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 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.
- --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 mktexfmt 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 mktexfmt
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.
- --version
- Print version information
and exit.
mktexlsr(1)
, mktexmf(1)
, mktexpk(1)
, mktextfm(1)
.
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