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5.6 'kpsewhich': Standalone path searching
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The Kpsewhich program exercises the path searching functionality
independent of any particular application.  This can also be useful as a
sort of 'find' program to locate files in your TeX hierarchies, perhaps
in administrative scripts.  It is used heavily in the distributed
'mktex...' scripts.

   Synopsis:

     kpsewhich OPTION... FILENAME...

   The options and filename(s) to look up can be intermixed.  Options
can start with either '-' or '--', and any unambiguous abbreviation is
accepted.

Path searching options

Changing the mode, resolution, etc.

Specially-recognized files

Default formats for texmf.cnf, etc.

Auxiliary tasks

Path and variable expansion, etc.

Standard options

'--help' and '--version'.