TEXDOC(1)

NAME
texdoc - find & view documentation in TeX Live

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, docfile, 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).

--print-completion SHELL
    Print SHELL completion.

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, LANGUAGE, LANGUAGE_texdoc
    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
Copyright 2008-2025 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.

SEE ALSO
The full documentation is maintained as a PDF manual. The command

    texdoc texdoc

should give you access to the complete manual.