kpsewhich.1

KPSEWHICH

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
SEE ALSO

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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.

**-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.

-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(1), mktexmf(1), mktexpk(1), mktextfm(1).

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