MKTEXLSR(1)

✨ MKTEXLSR(1) — the ls-R database generator ✨

💖 NAME

okay so mktexlsr is literally the tool that makes ls-R databases 🧚 that's it, that's the whole name. ngl it's giving very minimal energy but it's iconic.

🎀 SYNOPSIS

mktexlsr [directories]

🌸 DESCRIPTION

bestie, this page is not trying to be exhaustive 🙈 the full tea for this version of TeX lives in the info file or the manual called Kpathsea: A library for path searching. go check that out if you want the whole saga.

okay so mktexlsr is what generates the ls-R databases that the kpathsea library uses 💅 you can hand it specific directories and it'll build the databases for those. if you don't name any directories, it just uses a default list. lowkey so clean ✨

🦋 OPTIONS

mktexlsr accepts the following options, no cap:

• --help — prints a help message and exits 💜
• --version — prints version information and exits 🌈

🔥 REPORTING BUGS

if something's broken, report it to tex-k@tug.org (https://lists.tug.org/tex-k) 📬 the TeX Live home page is over at https://tug.org/texlive/ 🫶

🌈 TeX Live · 31 January 2020 · MKTEXLSR(1) 🌈 that's a wrap, bestie 🎀💅