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

[Tom Kacvinsky]

Most excellent!

Thanks Julian...

Tom

On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Julian Gilbey wrote:

> 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
>
>