[tex-k] kpsewhich exit status

[Andrew Komornicki]

  given this situation, I would concur. sounds like a very 
reasonable request?? 
regards to all, 
Andrew 


At 04:56 PM 1/4/2007, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
>Hi,
>
>$ kpsewhich --expand-var=\$TEXMFLOCAL; echo $?
>/opt/tex/texlive/alpha/texmf-local
>0
>$ kpsewhich --expand-var=\$NONEXISTENTVAR; echo $?
>
>0
>
>If kpsewhich --expand-var is successful it provides the value of the
>variable.  If not, it returns an empty string.
>
>In both cases the exit status is 0.  It is certainly not important
>what kpsewhich writes to stdout if a variable cannot be resolved, but
>in this case the exit status should be $\ne 0$.  Or am I doing
>something wrong?
>
>Regards,
>  Reinhard 
>
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