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kpsewhere(1)

kpsewhere1

Expanding kpsewhich to separately iterate over each texmf tree listed in $texmf.

Usage

kpsewhere [kpsewhich-OPTIONS ...] COMMAND

Overview

kpsewhere is an extension to kpsewhich (as where is for which in tcsh). The intention is to provide a way to check for conflicts/shadowed files. It will, however, only find one file per TEXMF tree.

Options

-h|--help

show a short help message

*

all other options are directly handed to kpsewhich

History

  • Arch Linux 2026-11-01: the text shown here
  • Debian 13 (Trixie) to Debian 7 (Wheezy)
  • Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
  • Debian 5.0 (Lenny) to Debian 4.0 (Etch)

Bugs

None known, but report any bugs found to <[email protected]> (mailing list).

Author

kpsewhere was written by Hans Fredrik Nordhaug <[email protected]>, additions by Thomas Esser <[email protected]>, in 2003 and 2004. kpsewhere is in the public domain.

This manual page was written by Frank Küster <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It is also in the public domain and may be used and changed by others without contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author).

From texlive-doc 2026.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.