[tex-live] Issue with XeTeX on MacTeX related to "\input|”

[George N. White III]

On 26 January 2018 at 11:08, Enrico Gregorio <enrico.gregorio at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> > On 26 Jan 2018, at 15:59 , Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > I tried your experiment with the file
> >
> >       % cat /var/tmp/noinput.tex
> >       ---\input"|echo $(date)--
> >       ---\input"|echo $(date)--
> >       \bye
> >
> > and with both
> >
> >       xetex -shell-escape noinput
> >       xetex -shell-escape -no-pdf noinput && xdvipdfmx noinput
> >
> > on my new TeX Live 2018 build on GNU/Linux (CentOS 7), I got expected
> > PDF files with output similar to this:
> >
> >       --Fri Jan 26 06:52:15 MST 2018 --
> >       --Fri Jan 26 06:52:15 MST 2018 --
>
> Yes, it seems a specific issue with MacTeX.
>

The bug is also present in the MacPorts version (Version
3.14159265-2.6-0.99998 (TeX Live 2017/MacPorts 2017_2)



> I tried on a vanilla TeX Live on Fedora and on TeX Live/Debian 2016,
> the result is as expected in both cases.
>

also works: TeX Live 2017 and "TeX Live 2013/Debian" on Ubuntu 14.04

-- 
George N. White III
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