Man page 1 : texlinks

texlinks - maintain symbolic links from format to engine

texlinks [ OPTIONS... ] DIRECTORIES...

texlinks is used to create or recreate symbolic links from formats to engines according to the information in fmtutil.cnf or a file specified with --cnffile.

DIRECTORIES is an optional list of directories in which to operate. If no directories are specified the list of directories depends on the --multiplatform option.

--cnffile FILE or -f FILE use file as configuration file (default: fmtutil.cnf)

--help or -h show some help text

--multiplatform or -m operate in all platform-specific directories (default: operate only in the directory for this platform)

--silent or -s silently skip over existing scripts/binaries instead of printing a warning

--unlink or -u Unlink previously created symlinks

--verbose or -v +set verbose mode on (default: off)

fmtutil.cnf default configuration file

fmtutil(1), fmtutil.cnf(5)

Web page: <http://tug.org/teTeX/>

None known, but report any bugs found to <> (mailing list).

texlinks was written by Thomas Esser <> in 1999. texlinks has been released into the public domain.

This manual page was written by C.M. Connelly <>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used by other distributions without contacting the author. Any mistakes or omissions in the manual page are my fault; inquiries about or corrections to this manual page should be directed to me (and not to the primary author).