[OS X TeX] Re: Save date-time, not Print date
Alain Schremmer
Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com
Sun Jan 7 15:49:07 CET 2007
Victor Ivrii wrote:
> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>
> \newcommand\file{foo}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> Test
>
> \immediate\write18{ls -l \file.tex | cut -b33-45 > \file.date}
> \input\file.date
>
> \end{document}
I copy pasted this on a new file and typeset it. I got an output with
the word "Test" but nothing else.
Since what Companion2ed says about \write is vanishingly small (in a
footnote on p.131), I wasn't able to figure out what is going on/ not
going on.
Regards
--schremmer
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