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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.
--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.
--version
  Print version information and exit.

## See Also

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

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