tectonic -X show

Display various useful pieces of information.

This is a V2 CLI command. For information on the original (“V1” CLI), see its reference page.

The show subcommands are:

• tectonic -X show user-cache-dir

tectonic -X show user-cache-dir

Print out the location of Tectonic’s default per-user cache directory.

Usage Synopsis

tectonic -X show user-cache-dir

Example

$ tectonic -X show user-cache-dir
/home/knuth/.cache/Tectonic # Unix

$ tectonic -X show user-cache-dir
/home/knuth/Library/Caches/Tectonic # macOS

$ tectonic -X show user-cache-dir
C:\Users\knuth\AppData\Local\TectonicProject\Tectonic # Windows