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.TH KPSEWHICH 1 "1 March 2011" "Kpathsea 6.3.0"
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.\"=====================================================================
.SH NAME
kpsewhich \- standalone path lookup and and expansion for kpathsea
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B kpsewhich
.RI [ options ]
.RI [ filenames ]
.\"=====================================================================
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
documentation for this version of \*(TX can be found in the info file
or manual
.IR "Kpathsea: A library for path searching" .
.PP
.B kpsewhich
is used as a standalone front-end of the kpathsea library that can be
used to examine variables and find files. When the
.B -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 \*(TX source files is
used.
.\"=====================================================================
.SH OPTIONS
.B kpsewhich
accepts the following options:
.TP
.BI -debug \ num
Set debugging flags.
.TP
.BI -D \ num
Use a base resolution of
.IR num ;
the default, set by the installer, is typically 600.
.TP
.BI -dpi \ num
As
.BR -D.
.TP
.BI -engine \ string
Set
.I $engine
in the environment, which is used in some search paths.
.TP
.BI -expand-braces \ string
Print variable and brace expansion of
.IR string .
.TP
.BI -expand-path \ string
Print complete path expansion of
.IR string .
.TP
.BI -expand-var \ string
Print variable expansion of
.IR string .
.TP
.BI -format \ name
Use file type
.IR name .
See the info manual for a list of valid names, or use the
.B -help
option to print the list.
.TP
.B -help
Print help message and exit.
.TP
.B -interactive
Ask for additional filenames to look up.
.TP
.BI -mktex \ fmt
enable
.RI mktex fmt
generation.
.RI ( fmt =pk/mf/tex/tfm)
.TP
.BI -mode \ string
Set device name for
.I $MAKETEX_MODE
to
.IR string ;
no default.
.TP
.B -must-exist
Search the disk as well as ls-R if necessary.
.TP
.BI -no-mktex \ fmt
disable
.RI mktex fmt
generation.
.RI ( fmt =pk/mf/tex/tfm)
.TP
.BI -path \ string
Search in the path
.IR string .
.TP
.BI -progname \ string
Set program name to
.IR string .
.\" .TP
.\" .BI -separator \ string
.\" .rb
.\" .I string
.\" separates components in
.\" .B -path
.\" output; default is
.\" .I :
.\" on UNIX systems.
.TP
.BI -show-path \ name
Output search path for file type
.IR name .
See the info manual for a list of valid names, or use the
.B -help
option to print the list.
.TP
.BI -var-value \ variable
Print the expansion of
.IR variable .
.TP
.B -version
Print version information and exit.
.\"=====================================================================
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR mktexlsr (1),
.BR mktexmf (1),
.BR mktexpk (1),
.BR mktextfm (1).
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