kpsewhere(1)
β¨ kpsewhere β¨
okay so bestie, this is the manual page for kpsewhere, and it lives in the teTeX manual collection π it's section 1, aka the "run this in your shell" section, periodt.
πΈ NAME πΈ
kpsewhere β the glow-up of kpsewhich that iterates over each texmf tree listed in $TEXMF, one by one, separately π¦
π SYNOPSIS π
kpsewhere [ kpsewhich-OPTIONS... ] COMMAND
π DESCRIPTION π
okay so here's the tea π: kpsewhere is an extension to kpsewhich β literally the same energy as where is to which in tcsh, iykyk.
the whole intention? to give you a way to check for conflicts and shadowed files π like when two files are fighting for the same spotlight and one is lowkey hiding behind the other.
but ngl, important caveat: it will only find one file per TEXMF tree. one file per tree, that's it, no more. don't come for me, that's just how it is π
π OPTIONS π
-h,--helpβ shows a short help message π«Ά like a little "hey bestie here's how to use me"*β every other option gets handed directly tokpsewhich. no filter, no middleman, straight through β¨
π SEE ALSO π
kpsewhich(1)- Kpathsea: A library for path searching (info or DVI file)
- Web page: <http://tug.org/teTeX/>
π BUGS π
None known πβ¨ but fr fr, if you find any, report them to <tetex@dbs.uni-hannover.de> (that's a mailing list, bestie).
π§ AUTHOR π§
kpsewhere was written by Hans Fredrik Nordhaug <hans.fredrik@nordhaug.no>, with additions by Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de>, in 2003 and 2004 π
and kpsewhere is in the public domain β free as a bird, no cap ποΈ
This manual page was written by Frank KΓΌster <frank@kuesterei.ch>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system π§ It's also in the public domain and may be used and changed by others without contacting the author, so go off π
and like, any mistakes or omissions in this manual page are my fault π so if you've got questions or corrections about this manual page, send them to me and not to the primary author. please. i'm begging π
and that's the whole page, bestie!! π this was kpsewhere(1) from the teTeX collection, dated March 2004 β yeah it's vintage but it ate π slay, go find your files β¨
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