texexec in a shell script

texexec in a shell script

[Robert Ullrey]

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I know someone out there has the answer to this. If I run texexec 
through a shell, even with the full path to texexec, I get an error, 
"/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec: line 1: 
sed: command not found
`.pl' not found."

Running Google with the error shows that it is quit common, but I could 
not find a good fix. I guess kpsewhich gets lost in the shell because 
the shell needs full paths the whole way through the command. Has 
anyone written a shell to get texexec --pdf ?

Thanks
Robert


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I know someone out there has the answer to this. If I run texexec
through a shell, even with the full path to texexec, I get an error,
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line 1: sed: command not found

`.pl' not found."


</x-tad-smaller></italic>Running Google with the error shows that it
is quit common, but I could not find a good fix. I guess kpsewhich
gets lost in the shell because the shell needs full paths the whole
way through the command. Has anyone written a shell to get texexec
--pdf ? 


Thanks

Robert

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Re: texexec in a shell script

[Hans Hagen]

Robert Ullrey wrote:
> I know someone out there has the answer to this. If I run texexec 
> through a shell, even with the full path to texexec, I get an error, 
> "//usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec: line 1: 
> sed: command not found
> `.pl' not found."

you can use the call:

   texmfstart texexec ...

alternative you can replace texexec in you bin path by:

   #!/bin/sh
   texmfstart texexec.pl $@

first of all, texmfstart only depends on ruby, and more important, it knows how 
to locate things in the texmftree (the tds structure occasionally changes and 
texmfstart can adapt to that)

Hans


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Re: texexec in a shell script

[Taco Hoekwater]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> Robert Ullrey wrote:
> 
>> I know someone out there has the answer to this. If I run texexec 
>> through a shell, even with the full path to texexec, I get an error, 
>> "//usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current/texexec: line 1: 
>> sed: command not found

Some alternative solutions are also possible:

You could

  - Install the (fairly standard unix tool) 'sed', that is obviously
    missing from your darwin install

  - Use 'perl /usr/local/teTeX/texmf/scripts/context/perl/texexec.pl'
    (replace the path with whereever your context distribution lives)

  - perhaps you should use gwTeX instead of teTeX (?)

Taco

Re: texexec in a shell script

[Adam Lindsay]

Taco Hoekwater said this at Tue, 19 Apr 2005 09:55:20 +0200:

>Some alternative solutions are also possible:
>
>You could
>
>  - Install the (fairly standard unix tool) 'sed', that is obviously
>    missing from your darwin install

if /usr/bin/sed is missing, a lot else will be missing, too. I would
recommend going back to the install discs and making sure you have
installed the `BSD Layer' (or something similar) in the custom install step.

>  - perhaps you should use gwTeX instead of teTeX (?)

Nah, it's gwTeX. Gerben just puts his distro into a directory called tetex.

cheers,
adam
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