[OS X TeX] Finding duplicate labels - a perl script

[Victor Ivrii]

log file lists all multiple defined labels and undefined references


On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Richard Seguin <riseguin at earthlink.net>wrote:

> Anyone who has written a very long math document has probably encountered
> the problem of accidentally creating duplicate labels. Right now I have 352
> labels, and I have run into this problem several times. I stumbled on a way
> of detecting exactly which labels have duplicates here:
>
> http://www.mawode.com/blog/blog/2012/03/21/finding-duplicate-latex-labels/
>
> It involves running this perl script in the terminal:
>
> perl -nE 'say $1 if /(\\label[^}]*})/' *.tex | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
>
> Just substitute the full path to your .tex file for the "*.tex" string in
> the above. You can do that by first copy/pasting
>
> perl -nE 'say $1 if /(\\label[^}]*})/'          <-------make sure the
> ending space is there
>
> then dragging your file to the terminal, and finally copy/pasting
>
> | sort | uniq -c | sort -n
>
> and running the script. It creates a sorted list of all your labels
> together with the number of occurrences of each within the terminal window.
> Finding duplicates is just a matter of scanning the list for counts > 1.
> It's also very fast.
>
> It seems to me that an Applescript could be created to run this perl
> script from BBEdit or TeXShop, finding the path of the front .tex document,
> assembling the perl script, and then passing it on and running it in the
> terminal, essentially making it a one-click operation. Unfortunately, I'm
> not handy enough with Applescript to figure out how to do this.
>
> Richard Séguin
>
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