[texhax] LaTeX enhancement

[Randolph J. Herber]

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>Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2004 21:28:37 +0630
>From: M Senthil Kumar <senthil at www.cdfd.org.in>
>Subject: Re: [texhax] LaTeX enhancement
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><SNIP>
>>   for file in filelist.txt; do rubber-pipe < $file > $file.ps; done

>> However, I don't think you can avoid the fork()/exec(), LaTeX is not a batch
>> processor I think.

>>   mvrgr, Wouter
></SNIP>

>Hi,
>Pardon me if i am wrong, can't we use the following to achieve the same
>thing from any Unix command line ?

>$ for i in *.tex;do latex $i;done

	Ah, a Bourne family shell user.

	This runs into the problem that I believe the original user
	encountered:  latex *.tex failed for too many arguments
	(errno E2BIG  Arg list too long) and tracked the problem
	to the exec family library call.

	This only moves the problem to the ``for'' builtin.

	find . -name '*.tex' -print0 | xargs -0 latex
  or
	find . -name '*.tex' -print | while read file; do latex $file;done

	This will also descending to sub directories.

	In the `Linux' find, for the current directory:

	find . -name '*.tex' -maxdepth 1 ....

>Regards,

>Senthil

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