KPSEWHICH

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 7 January 2007
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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.
-D num: Use a base resolution of num; the default, set by the installer, is typically 600.
-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.
-help: Print help message and exit.
-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.