[tex-k] kpsewhich --var-value

[jfbu]

Le 1 mai 2015 à 19:50, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> a écrit :

> Hi,
> 
> the kpathsea manual says 
> 
> http://tug.org/texinfohtml/kpathsea.html#Auxiliary-tasks
> 
> •  ‘--var-value=variable’ outputs the value of variable, expanding ‘$’ (see Variable expansion and ‘~’ (see Tilde expansion) constructs, but not performing other expansions.
> 
> but: 
> 
> $ env TEXMFHOME="/tmp" kpsewhich --var-value '$TEXMFHOME'
> 
> $ env TEXMFHOME="/tmp" kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFHOME
> /tmp
> 
> This is a bash shell
> 
> Do I do something wrong ? 
> 
> $ export TEXMFHOME="/tmp"
> $ kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME
> /tmp
> $ kpsewhich -var-value '$TEXMFHOME'
> 
> $ 
> 
> Perhaps it is to be understood that if a texmf.cnf defines a variable then if this variable is queried, $ and ~ therein will be expanded ? 

sorry for the noise. I understand

$ export TMP1='$TEXMFHOME'
$ kpsewhich -var-value TMP1
/Users/---/Library/texmf
$

I find the formulation of the manual a bit confusing, though.

regards

Jean-François