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

[Vincent Belaïche]

Maybe it would also be worth mentionning that when there are several
arguments containing LaTeX code, an implicit space separator is in
between them.

So if you have a document temp.tex

================================================================================
\documentclass{minimal}
\begin{document}
Bonjour\separator tous.
\end{document}
================================================================================

and you type

  pdflatex "\def\sepearator{" "}\input" temp

then you get in the PDF output this:

================================================================================
Bonjour tous.
================================================================================

Le mer. 29 avr. 2020 à 18:35, Vincent Belaïche
<vincent.belaiche at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> 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.