kpsewhich
Name
kpsewhich – standalone path lookup and and expansion for kpathsea
Synopsis
kpsewhich [options] [filenames]
Description
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documen?
tation 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.
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 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.
-var-value variable
Print the expansion of variable.
-version
Print version information and exit.
See also
mktexlsr, mktexmf, mktexpk, mktextfm.
Kpathsea 3.5.6 7 January 2007 kpsewhich
