[OS X TeX] Need help with sed command.

[Norman Gray]

Herbert, hello.

On 2007 Jan 8 , at 01.33, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> I'm trying to build a temporary BIBINPUTS environment variable by  
> storing the output of
>
> kpsewhich --show-path=bib

You do say `don't ask why', but just in case it helps avoid sed  
hackery, are you aware that an empty path in the relevant environment  
variable causes the kpse searching algorithms to insert the default  
path at that point?

Thus

% kpsepath bib
.:/Volumes/Lagrange/Users/norman/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib//:<BLAH>:!!/ 
usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/bibtex///
% export BIBINPUTS=/my/place::/last/ditch
% kpsepath bib
/my/place:.:/Volumes/Lagrange/Users/norman/Library/texmf/bibtex/bib// 
<BLAH>:!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/bibtex///:/last/ditch

Just in case....

Norman


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