texdoc

Search for appropriate documentation for (La)TeX commands or packages.

TLDR

Open the first search result in the default PDF viewer

$ texdoc [search]

Open full documentation of texdoc

$ texdoc [texdoc]

SYNOPSIS

texdoc [OPTION]... NAME...
texdoc [OPTION]... ACTION

DESCRIPTION

Try to find appropriate TeX documentation for the specified NAME(s). Alternatively, perform the given ACTION and exit.

OPTIONS

-w, --view: Use view mode: start a viewer. (default)
-m, --mixed: Use mixed mode (view or list).
-l, --list: Use list mode: show a list of results.
-s, --showall: Use showall mode: show also "bad" results.
-i, --interact: Use interactive menus. (default)
-I, --nointeract: Use plain lists, no interaction required.
-M, --machine: Machine-readable output for lists (implies -I).
-q, --quiet: Suppress warnings and most error messages.
-v, --verbose: Print additional information (e.g., viewer command).
-D, --debug: Activate all debug output (equal to "--debug=all").
-d LIST, --debug=LIST: Activate debug output restricted to the categories specified in LIST.
Available categories: config, files, search, score, texdocs, tlpdb, version, view, and all to activate all of these.
-c NAME=VALUE: Set configuration item NAME to VALUE.

ACTIONS

-h, --help: Print this help message.
-V, --version: Print the version number.
-f, --files: Print the list of configuration files used.
--just-view FILE: Display FILE, given with full path (no searching).

ENVIRONMENT

The following environment variables can be split by colon and used to set viewers:

BROWSER, BROWSER_texdoc: Set the command to be used for HTML documents.
DVIVIEWER, DVIVIEWER_texdoc: Set the command to be used for DVI documents.
MDVIEWER, MDVIEWER_texdoc: Set the command to be used for Markdown documents.
PAGER, PAGER_texdoc: Set the command to be used for text documents.
PDFVIEWER, PDFVIEWER_texdoc: Set the command to be used for PDF documents.
PSVIEWER, PSVIEWER_texdoc: Set the command to be used for PS documents.

The following environment variables are also used:

LANG, LC_ALL and so on: Set the locale (which will influence on the search results).
TEXDOCS: In addition to the documents included in the TeX Live database, Texdoc also searches documentation under TEXMF trees specified by the kpathsea variable TEXDOCS.

FILES

<texmf>/texdoc/texdoc.cnf, see output of the --files option.

EXIT STATUS

The texdoc command exists with one of the following values:

0: Success.
1: Internal error.
2: Usage error.
3: No documentation found.

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to texdoc@tug.org.
Texdoc home page: http://tug.org/texdoc/
Source: https://github.com/TeX-Live/texdoc

Copyright 2008-2020 Manuel Pe'gourie'-Gonnard, Takuto Asakura, the TeX Live Team.
License: GNU GPL version 3 or later http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.