[tex-k] kpsewhich, TEXINPUTS, -expand-var, and -progname

[Julian Gilbey]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 02:53:47PM -0400, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:
> I am in the process of setting up some shell scripts wherby I customize search
> paths by setting the environment TEXINPUTS (I'm using tcsh).  The way I am
> customizing TEXINPUTS is by appending `:' to a `:' separated list of paths.  For
> example:
> 
>     setenv TEXINPUTS /foo//:/bar//:
> 
> What I would then like to see is how TEXINPUTS looks when latex, tex, pdftex,
> et. al. are invoked.  I am trying to do this by using kpsewhich:
> 
>    kpsewhich -progname=tex -expand-var='$TEXINPUTS'
>    kpsewhich -progname=latex -expand-var='$TEXINPUTS'

The following do what you want:

   kpsewhich -progname=tex -show-path=tex
   kpsewhich -progname=latex -show-path=tex

   Julian

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