Re: os:command queston

Kenneth Lundin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.erlang.general
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the problem is not about escaping, it is tat the argument to os:cmd should
be a string.

in you case
os:cmd("pdflatex --shell-escape tex/oblivious.tex").

/Regards Kenneth

On Fri, Apr 2, 2021, 19:06 Lloyd R. prentice <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> This error just bit me:
>
> Eshell V10.4  (abort with ^G)
> 1> os:command(pdflatex --shell-escape tex/oblivious.tex).
> * 1: syntax error before: tex
>
> I did a Google search, but couldn't find out how to escape the period
> before tex.
>
> So how might I do that?
>
> Thanks,
>
> LRP
>
>
>
>
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