kpsewhich (1)

kpsewhich [options] [filenames]

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of \*(TX 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 \*(TX source files is used.

kpsewhich accepts the following options:

-debugnum

Set debugging flags.

-Dnum

Use a base resolution of num; the default, set by the installer, is typically 600.

-dpinum

As -D.

-enginestring

Set $engine in the environment, which is used in some search paths.

-expand-bracesstring

Print variable and brace expansion of string.

-expand-pathstring

Print complete path expansion of string.

-expand-varstring

Print variable expansion of string.

-formatname

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.

-mktexfmt

enable mktexfmt generation. (fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)

-modestring

Set device name for $MAKETEX_MODE to string; no default.

-must-exist

Search the disk as well as ls-R if necessary.

-no-mktexfmt

disable mktexfmt generation. (fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)

-pathstring

Search in the path string.

-prognamestring

Set program name to string.

-show-pathname

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-valuevariable

Print the expansion of variable.

-version

Print version information and exit.

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