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).