## NAME

kpsewhich - standalone path lookup and and expansion for kpathsea

## SYNOPSIS

kpsewhich

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of *(TX 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 *(TX 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

generation.

-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

generation.

-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).