My 2 cents


>
> Ideally I could suppress informational messages but keep the warning
> messages, per the traditional unix > and 2> output routings  for
> sysout and syserr.  But texexec does not appear to make the
> distinction.


$>texexec --pdf --batch  mytest.tex  &>/dev/null

Routing all output to /dev/null is a trick that I use sometimes, but
> if the run errors off then it just hangs with no message.


for errors
$>egrep  '^\!'  mytest.log

and for figures
$> egrep 'figure.*can not be found' mytest.log




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luigi
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