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 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.