texlinks(1)

texlinks1

Maintain symbolic links from format to engine

Usage

texlinks [OPTIONS ...] DIRECTORIES ...

Overview

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

--verbose or -v

+set verbose mode on (default: off)

Files

fmtutil.cnf

default configuration file

Releases

7 releases since Debian 2.2 (Potato); the text changed 4 times.

  1. 2.2
  2. 4.0–5.0
  3. 6.0–7
  4. 8
  5. Arch

--cnffile since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --help since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --multiplatform since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --silent since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --unlink since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); --verbose since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -f since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -h since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -m since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -s since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -u since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); -v since Debian 4.0 (Etch).

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.

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