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

[Enrico Gregorio]

> On 26 Jan 2018, at 11:05 , Enrico Gregorio <enrico.gregorio at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I get back with the same issue I reported a few months ago,
> hoping it will be solved in the next release. I’m certain others
> suffer with the issue.
> 
> If I typeset the following noinput.tex test file with “xetex -shell-escape noinput”
> 
> ---\input"|echo $(date)”\relax---
> 
> ---\input"|echo $(date)”\relax---
> 
> \bye
> 
> the console output is
> 
>> xetex -shell-escape noinput
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99998 (TeX Live 2017) (preloaded format=xetex)
> \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./noinput.tex (|echo $(date)---) (|echo $(date)---) [1] >
> 
> Note the missing newline. No PDF file is produced. If I call it as
> 
>> xetex -shell-escape -no-pdf noinput && xdvipdfmx noinput
> 
> then a PDF file is produced, but only the first \input| command shows output. The
> second one seems to just produce a \par. The console output, in this case, is
> 
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99998 (TeX Live 2017) (preloaded format=xetex)
> \write18 enabled.
> entering extended mode
> (./noinput.tex (|echo $(date)) (|echo $(date)) [1] )
> Output written on noinput.xdv (1 page, 288 bytes).
> Transcript written on noinput.log.
> noinput -> noinput.pdf
> [1]
> 3338 bytes written
> 
> The log file shows nothing suspicious.

This appears to have been fixed in TL 2018/pretest

tl2018pretest > xetex -shell-escape noinput
This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99999 (TeX Live 2018) (preloaded format=xetex)
 \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./noinput.tex (|echo $(date)”) (|echo $(date)”) [1] )
(see the transcript file for additional information)
Output written on noinput.pdf (1 page).
Transcript written on noinput.log.

Thanks to everybody who contributed to solve the issue!

Ciao
Enrico