Re: finding locations of many files via kpse
Mike Marchywka <[email protected]>
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________________________________________ From: texhax <[email protected]> on behalf of Karl Berry <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2024 6:27 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: finding locations of many files via kpse If the kpse utils could export a path in the normal linux PATH syntax kpsewhich -expand-path="`kpsewhich -show-path=tex`" >/tmp/k The result has some 8880 directories and is ~500K on my system. -k So what does kpsewhich do to speed up the search that can't be done in "which"? If you are looking for a lot of things you can compile these things once. The file system stuff could get slow even with good caching etc.