[OS X TeX] Re: Save date-time, not Print date

[Alain Schremmer]

Victor Ivrii wrote:

> On 1/7/07, Alain Schremmer <Schremmer.Alain at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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}
>
>
> \write18 works only if --shell-escape is enabled. 

I have no idea if the shell was allowed to escape or not.

> What is your latex engine.

Who knows. And, anyhow, I don't answer any question in the absence of my 
attorney.

> Also you need to replace foo by the actual name (without .tex) of your 
> file.

I did and it did work: This time, so to speak, I got

    Test
    31 7 Jan 10:

which I like but I will have to wait till tomorrow to see how it works 
regarding Save and Typeset since it doesn't include the time.

But what is this "31" about?

I also have a new file "Ivrii.date"—my test file was called Ivrii—not 
that I mind, though, since, by now I already have some 15,000 files; so 
what's a thousand more? :-)

Best regards
--schremmer


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