Linux cli command kpsewhich

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NAME 🖥️ kpsewhich 🖥️

standalone path lookup 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.

SEE ALSO

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

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