kpsewhere(1)

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✨ kpsewhere ✨

okay so bestie, this is the manual page for kpsewhere, and it lives in the teTeX manual collection 💖 it's section 1, aka the "run this in your shell" section, periodt.

🌸 NAME 🌸

kpsewhere — the glow-up of kpsewhich that iterates over each texmf tree listed in $TEXMF, one by one, separately 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

kpsewhere [ kpsewhich-OPTIONS... ] COMMAND

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so here's the tea 🍓: kpsewhere is an extension to kpsewhich — 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 😭 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 💅

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -h, --help — shows a short help message 🫶 like a little "hey bestie here's how to use me"
  • * — every other option gets handed directly to kpsewhich. no filter, no middleman, straight through ✨

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

None known 😌✨ but fr fr, if you find any, report them to <tetex@dbs.uni-hannover.de> (that's a mailing list, bestie).

🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

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 📅 and kpsewhere is in the public domain — free as a bird, no cap 🕊️

This manual page was written by Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system 🐧 It's also in the public domain and may be used and changed by others without contacting the author, so go off 👑

and like, any mistakes or omissions in this manual page are my fault 😭 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 🙈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! 💖 this was kpsewhere(1) from the teTeX collection, dated March 2004 — yeah it's vintage but it ate 🎀 slay, go find your files ✨

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