[tex-live] TeXLive (Windows) bash script -> exe

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 2014-05-19 at 17:42:10 +0200, Ulrike Fischer wrote:

 > Am Mon, 19 May 2014 15:59:43 +0200 schrieb Mojca Miklavec:
 > 
 > > Yes, you can rewrite the program in lua and execute it with texlua.
 > 
 > > If you write your script in lua, it will be guaranteed to work on all
 > > operating systems.
 > 
 > I would love to use texlua to avoid bat and sh-skripts:
 > http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/175055/how-to-adapt-a-batch-script-write18-call-to-linux-systems)
 > 
 > But is is actually possible to change the current directory with
 > lua? And if yes how?

Yes.  lfs.chdir()

 > And another small question: What extension should one use for such
 > lua-scripts .lua or tlu?

Both are supported by kpathsea and runscript.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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