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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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