[OS X TeX] Remarks about TeX on Leopard
Peter Dyballa
Peter_Dyballa at Web.DE
Sun Nov 4 13:30:14 CET 2007
Am 03.11.2007 um 10:59 schrieb Bruno Voisin:
> Two remarks:
>
> - Regarding the first fix, namely replacing in simpdftex all
> occurrences of
>
> echo -n
>
> with
>
> printf "%s"
This is not needed in my opinion. And it's a bad substitution: echo
is built-in to bash and other shells (man builtin) while printf is an
external programme.
The use of 'echo -n' in these three places in simpdftex is simply
unnecessary, if not faulty:
126: argwithoutlead=`echo -n "$1"|sed 's/^--//'`
434: nosuffixbasename=`echo -n ${basename}|sed 's/\.[^.]*$//'`
435: nodvisuffixbasename=`echo -n ${basename}|sed 's/\.[dD][vV][iI]
$//'`
The first argument of the script (simpdftex) cannot contain a new-
line character, and neither can the base name of the file to process.
So a simple echo is just enough.
--
Greetings
Pete
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