texlinks(8)

texlinks8

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

--help or -h

show some help text

--cnffile FILE or -f FILE

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

--verbose or -v

set verbose mode on (default: off)

--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

Files

fmtutil.cnf

default configuration file

Releases

2 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1

Bugs

None known, but report any bugs found to <[email protected]> (mailing list).

Author

texlinks was written by Thomas Esser <[email protected]> and is Copyright © 1999. texlinks has been released into the public domain.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions without contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author).

From tetex-bin 2.0.2-30sarge5 in Debian 3.1 (Sarge). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.