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
documentation for this version of can be found in the info file
or manual
R 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.
OPTIONS
kpsewhich
accepts the following options:
I -debug num
Set debugging flags.
I -D num
Use a base resolution of
R num ;
the default, set by the installer, is typically 600.
I -engine string
Set
$engine
in the environment, which is used in some search paths.
I -expand-braces string
Print variable and brace expansion of
R string .
I -expand-path string
Print complete path expansion of
R string .
I -expand-var string
Print variable expansion of
R string .
I -format name
Use file type
R 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.
I -mktex fmt
enable
mktexfmt
generation.
(fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)
I -mode string
Set device name for
$MAKETEX_MODE
to
R string ;
no default.
-must-exist
Search the disk as well as ls-R if necessary.
I -no-mktex fmt
disable
mktexfmt
generation.
(fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)
I -path string
Search in the path
R string .
I -progname string
Set program name to
R string .
I -show-path name
Output search path for file type
R name .
See the info manual for a list of valid names, or use the
-help
option to print the list.
I -var-value variable
Print the expansion of
R variable .
-version
Print version information and exit.
SEE ALSO
