kpsewhich - standalone path lookup and expansion for kpathsea

       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:Alibraryforpathsearching.

       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.

       kpsewhich - standalone path lookup and expansion for kpathsea

kpsewhich accepts the following options:

       -debugnum
              Set debugging flags.

       -Dnum Use a base resolution of num; the default, set by the installer, is typically 600.

       -dpinum
              As -D.

       -enginestring
              Set $engine in the environment, which is used in some search paths.

       -expand-bracesstring
              Print variable and brace expansion of string.

       -expand-pathstring
              Print complete path expansion of string.

       -expand-varstring
              Print variable expansion of string.

       -formatname
              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.

       -mktexfmt
              enable mktexfmt generation.  (fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)

       -modestring
              Set device name for $MAKETEX_MODE to string; no default.

       -must-exist
              Search the disk as well as ls-R if necessary.

       -no-mktexfmt
              disable mktexfmt generation.  (fmt=pk/mf/tex/tfm)

       -pathstring
              Search in the path string.

       -prognamestring
              Set program name to string.

       -show-pathname
              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-valuevariable
              Print the expansion of variable.

       -version
              Print version information and exit.

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

Kpathsea 6.4.0/dev                                1 March 2011                                      KPSEWHICH(1)

kpsewhich [options] [filenames]