kpsewhich - standalone path lookup and and expansion for kpathsea
kpsewhich
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.
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.
mktexlsr (1), mktexmf (1), mktexpk (1), mktextfm (1).