[latexrefman] pdflatex -jobname=aa "\RequirePackage[draft]@{graphicx@}\input@{aa.tex@}"

[Vincent Belaïche]

Sorry the email was sent w/o my completing it:

Of course it is best not to use these special characters, but
sometimes they are forced by other constrains like for ~ which is
commonly used in version tracking systems.

  V.

Le mer. 29 avr. 2020 à 18:31, Vincent Belaïche
<vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Hello,
>
> This example is in node Command line input.
>
> There are two things:
>
> * first, I think that \PassOptionsToPackage{draft}{graphicx} is safer,
> especially when order of package loading matters.
> * second -jobname=aa is useless here, and as such brings confusion
>
> Finally, I think that there are two other special effect of interest
>
> * changing the \today date :
>    pdflatex "\year=1789 \month=7 \day=14 \input" BastilleDay.tex
>
> * overcoming some special characters in the root filename, like this
> to accept ~ in the name :
>   pdflatex "\relax{\catcode126=11 \toks0{\input" temp~1 "
> }\expandafter}\the\toks0 "
> a more complete example can be found in the run_tex function of the
> bash script texi2dvi
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/texinfo.git/tree/util/texi2dvi
> Of course
>
>   V.