1KPSEWHICH(1)                General Commands Manual               KPSEWHICH(1)
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NAME

6       kpsewhich - standalone path lookup and and expansion for kpathsea
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SYNOPSIS

9       kpsewhich [options] [filenames]
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DESCRIPTION

12       This  manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete documenā€
13       tation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or  manual
14       Kpathsea: A library for path searching.
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16       kpsewhich  is  used  as  a standalone front-end of the kpathsea library
17       that can be used to examine variables and find files.  When the -format
18       option  is  not  given, the search path used when looking for a file is
19       inferred from the name given, by looking for a known extension.  If  no
20       known extension is found, the search path for TeX source files is used.
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OPTIONS

23       kpsewhich accepts the following options:
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25       -debug num
26              Set debugging flags.
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28       -D num Use a base resolution of num; the default, set by the installer,
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34       -engine string
35              Set $engine in the environment, which is  used  in  some  search
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39              Print variable and brace expansion of string.
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42              Print complete path expansion of string.
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48              Use  file  type  name.   See the info manual for a list of valid
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51       -help  Print help message and exit.
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54              Ask for additional filenames to look up.
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57              enable mktexfmt generation.  (fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)
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59       -mode string
60              Set device name for $MAKETEX_MODE to string; no default.
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75              Output search path for file type name.  See the info manual  for
76              a  list  of  valid  names,  or use the -help option to print the
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83              Print version information and exit.
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SEE ALSO

86       mktexlsr(1), mktexmf(1), mktexpk(1), mktextfm(1).
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90Kpathsea 6.3.0                   1 March 2011                     KPSEWHICH(1)
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