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## 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 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 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) .

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