Section 1 · User commands

texlinks.1

Package: texlive-texlive-scripts-extra

texlinks

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
FILES
SEE ALSO
BUGS
AUTHOR

NAME

texlinks − maintain symbolic links from format to engine

SYNOPSIS

texlinks [ OPTIONS… ] DIRECTORIES…

DESCRIPTION

texlinks is used to create or recreate symbolic links from formats to engines according to the information in fmtutil.cnf or a file specified with —cnffile.

DIRECTORIES is an optional list of directories in which to operate. If no directories are specified the list of directories depends on the —multiplatform option.

OPTIONS

—cnffile FILE or -f FILE

use file as configuration file (default: fmtutil.cnf)

—help or -h

show some help text

—multiplatform or -m

operate in all platform-specific directories (default: operate only in the directory for this platform)

—silent or -s

silently skip over existing scripts/binaries instead of printing a warning

—unlink or -u

Unlink previously created symlinks

—verbose or -v

+set verbose mode on (default: off)

FILES

fmtutil.cnf

default configuration file

BUGS

Email bug reports to <https://lists.tug.org/tex-k> (public mailing list).

AUTHOR

texlinks was written by Thomas Esser in 1999. texlinks has been released into the public domain.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It is now maintained as part of TeX Live.