[tex-live] kpsewhich and format files

[Martin Schröder]

2013/4/11 Ulrike Fischer <news3 at nililand.de>:
> How can I get kpsewhich in a TeXLive 2012 to show me the path of a
> format file, e.g. pdflatex.fmt? Is it even possible?

>From kpsewhich --help:

When looking up format (.fmt/.base/.mem) files, it is usually necessary
to also use -engine, or nothing will be returned; in particular,
-engine=/ will return matching format files for any engine.

>kpsewhich -engine=pdftex pdflatex.fmt
c:/texlive/2012/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt

Best
   Martin