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KPSEWHICH(1)		     General Commands Manual		    KPSEWHICH(1)

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.

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

Kpathsea 6.4.1			  1 March 2011			    KPSEWHICH(1)

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