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kpathsea: Auxiliary tasks

 
 5.5.3 Auxiliary tasks
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 Kpsewhich provides some features in addition to path lookup as such:
 
 '--debug=NUM'
      Set debugging options to NUM.  Debugging.
 
 '--expand-braces=STRING'
      Output variable and brace expansion of STRING.  Path
      expansion.
 
 '--expand-path=STRING'
      Output the complete expansion of STRING, with each element
      separated by the usual path separator on the current system (';' on
      Windows, ':' otherwise).  This may be useful to construct a custom
      search path for a format not otherwise supported.  To retrieve the
      search path for a format that is already supported, see
      '--show-path'.
 
      Nonexistent directories are culled from the output:
 
           $ kpsewhich --expand-path '/tmp'
           => /tmp
           $ kpsewhich --expand-path '/nonesuch'
           =>
 
      For one-shot uses of an arbitrary (not built in to Kpathsea) path,
      see '--path' (Path searching options)
 
 '--expand-var=STRING'
      Output the variable and tilde expansion of STRING the 'mktex...'
      scripts run 'kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMF'' to find the root of
      the TeX system hierarchy.  Path expansion.
 
 '--help-formats'
      Output information about each supported format (Supported
      file formats), including the names and abbreviations, variables
      looked for, and the original path.
 
 '--safe-in-name=NAME'
 '--safe-out-name=NAME'
      Exit successfully if NAME is safe to open for reading or writing,
      respectively, else unsuccessfully.  No output is written.  These
      tests take account of the related Kpathsea configuration settings
      (Calling sequence).
 
 '--show-path=NAME'
      Show the path that would be used for file lookups of file type
      NAME.  Either a filename extension ('pk', '.vf', etc.)  or an
      integer can be used, just as with '--format', described in the
      previous section.
 
 '--var-value=VARIABLE'
      Outputs the value of VARIABLE (a simple identifier like 'TEXMF',
      with no '$' or other constructs), expanding '$' (Variable
      expansion and '~' (Tilde expansion) constructs, but not
      performing other expansions.
 

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