Re: environment variable

On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 10:40:59AM +0100, Thomas Esser wrote:
> > Some years ago I had been experimenting with things like this and it
> > worked indeed.  It didn't work with arbitrary variables, but in this
> > case $HOME is part of the filename.
> 
> It works up to teTeX-2.0.2. Variables which the kpathsea library expands
> correctly can be used.

Well, another possibility is to use the --shell-escape on un*x system...

Suppose you have in ./do-env the following: 

#!/bin/sh
#
rm -f tmp.tex
echo "\\def\\HOME{$HOME}" > tmp.tex

then from latex (called with --shell-escape) you could do

\immediate\write18{./do-env}
\input{tmp.tex}

HOME is  \HOME\par

and this works. I know, it a bit dangerous to enable the shell escape
mechanism. 

It would be nice (and safe) to be able to process the file
"/proc/self/environ" (a null-separated strings with all the environment
variable) to automatically have \HOME, \PWD etc defined but that's way out
of my texhacker possibility (and off-topic here, too...) 

HTH

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