{shell-escape} is about the “--shell-escape” argument, i.e. to enable external running of commands from inside the ‘.tex’ file.
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Problem using \write18 in beamer frame
I am stuck in front of this little but annoying problem. I am trying to use a \write18 command in which I use a local variable \mytest.
I really don't understand why this SWE works if I comment the ...
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Exporting TikZ figures to .EPS
i'm trying to export a TikZ picture to .eps using the following on Win7 (MikTeX), compiling with pdflatex:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{external}
...
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1answer
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“shell escape” is not enabled - chemscheme/chemstyle
I am having issues with -shell-escape. I do not know really what this is, and how to apply it. Furthermore, I have read elsewhere that I is possibly dangerous to summon this command. Any help would be ...
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1answer
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Automatically include an SE flair in output document [duplicate]
Under the assumption that my machine is connected to the Internet, how can I automatically include my TeX.SE flair in my output document at compile time?
My understanding is that an SE flair is ...
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gnuplottex and lualatex
EDIT: This question covers a bug in gnuplottex which will be fixed in TeXLive 2013.If you still want to have the bug fixed, download the latest upstream version from CTAN and compile it yourself.
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PSTricks and LaTeX vs. pdfLaTeX
I'm trying to convert my thesis to pdfLaTeX, as latex + dvips behaves ugly when it comes to break (really long) URLs... I'm using up-to-date TeXLive 2012 on Linux.
The only problem is (so far), that ...
7
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1answer
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Suppress message during compilation
I use a macro with \write18 and \@@input, several times in each page of a large document. But \@@input output a message during compilation:
(filename)
This is very annoying and flood the other ...
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emacs whizzytex latex options, minted, -shell-escape
I want to use whizzytex with emacs because of its superior speed compared to other wysiwyg options available. The only thing preventing me from doing so is that my latex documents use the minted ...
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How to use a TeX macro with a CSV list to filter an external file
The code below produces the results I desire, which is a list of the lines with XXX={<value>} with a <value> which is not one of the allowed list of values:
However, this solution ...
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1answer
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Associate array of returns of commands
I'm trying to get strings from an external program, as shown in this example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\newcounter{verse}
\stepcounter{verse}
...
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Is Arara safe/secure
I have just begun playing around with arara and I am curious if there are safety/security concerns. For example, pdflatex from TeX Live has shell escape disabled by default. If the TeX Live team think ...
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1answer
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Specify file name shell access via \@@input
Background:
I need to perform a conditional branch based on the first three characters of a file. I found a rather simple solution (on a Unix system, or PC with cygwin installed):
head -1 ...
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How to invoke latex with the -shell-escape flag in TeXMakerX?
This is a follow-up question on the post: Creating a table around a java script code highlighted using minted where invoking -shell-escape flag in TeXStudio is one of the two questions posted by the ...
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Equivalent to TeXLive's --restricted-shell-escape for MiKTeX?
I often work on Windows, so need to use MiKTeX. I recently found the minted package, which needs to call the external command pygmentize. I currently call xelatex with the -shell-escape option to ...
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1answer
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How to invoke \write18{pdflatex “\def\param{…}\input{filename}”}?
Why can't I compile the following even though I have enabled -shell-escape?
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{inputfile.tex}
%\def\paramA{standalone}
...
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2answers
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Does the lualatex shell enable behavior differ from pdflatex on purpose?
I am trying to use TikzEdt, an editor for TikZ graphics. For some tasks TikZ needs to call other commands so I tried to enable this by the parameter --shell-escape passed to lualatex (on Windows, ...
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What does --shell-escape do?
I stumbled upon an example, which needed to be compiled with the additional option --shell-escape. Using this option it worked just fine, but I'm curious:
Why or when is this option needed and ...
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How do you detect restricted write18 support
I know about \ifeof18 and \pdfshellescape to detect, if \write18 is enabled, but both only tell me, if it's enabled at all. I need to use a program which isn't in the list of commands restricted ...
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1answer
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Add -shell-escape option to the latex invocation of preview-latex in auctex
I need preview-latex to use the -shell-escape option when it invokes pdflatex, which is required by the minted package for syntax highlighting, as it invokes python. How can I do that?
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1answer
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\documentclass[convert]{standalone} ignores linebreak
I tried to combine this answer Compile a LaTeX document into a PNG image that's as short as possible
with my answer Add column in a table
But the pdflatex -shell-escape table.tex ignores ...
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1answer
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How to enable shell-escape in TeXworks?
I require use of the minted package of similar one which support Prolog syntax-highlighting.
Given that I use the TeXworks "IDE", how do I enable shell-escape?
Though I attempted—see above—I still ...
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1answer
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Compiling CircuiTikZ with -shell-escape (pdflatex)
I'm trying to use both CircuiTikZ and pgfplots. In order not to overflow LaTeX memory, I use the TikZ externalize library with -shell-escape command in pdfLaTeX. It compiles the pgfplots nicely, but ...
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Can I make write18 send command lines to Cygwin bash instead of Windows command interpreter?
I am using Windows 7, Cygwin (CYGWIN_NT-6.6-WOW64), and MiKTeX 2.9. I am trying to compile a document of a friend of mine who has written a specific document class file (.cls), a class that is able to ...
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1answer
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What does “restricted \write18 enabled” mean and why does TexLive keep reporting it?
I've installed a backported version of TL2012 on Ubuntu 12.04, and every time I start pdftex, xetex, luatex, pdflatex, xelatex, or lualatex, I get the statement restricted \write18 enabled. entering ...
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how to escape special chars in \write18?
This is what I'm trying to do (it's just an example, not a real code):
\immediate\write18{echo "price: $5.00" > temp.tex}
\input{temp.tex}
This is what I see in temp.tex:
price: .00
What is a ...
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1answer
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Reading an external file failed with dimension related errors
I want to read an external file one line per read and insert each line as an item. I failed to do so because of dimension related errors. How to solve it?
\documentclass{article}
\def\trimtok i{}
...
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2answers
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Using macros in \DeclareGraphicsRule statement using shell command
I am currently working on a document which i am compiling under both linux and windows.
As one of the images I use is a tif image, I'd like to have lualatex converting it on-runtime to a format it ...
6
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1answer
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Trailing space to end \input| argument
Why do \message{\input|"texlua ..."} and \message{\input|"texlua ..." } give very different results? Notice the extra space before } in the second case.
Minimal example to be compiled with pdftex ...
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Using \input|texlua… to emulate \directlua in pdfTeX
When --shell-escape is enabled, pdfTeX allows to run external programs and input the result expandably with \input|"...". Together with the Lua interpreter texlua, this could be used to provide a ...
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Using shell escape to access system time
In an earlier question, I asked for analogs of \pdfelapsedtime (which measures the time since the start of the current run) in XeTeX and LuaTeX. A LuaTeX solution was provided, and is now part of ...
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1answer
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How do I determine what items to add to my “restricted-shell-escape” safe list?
I am trying to follow the MacTeX-2012 instructions for migrating from (unsafe) shell-escape to using "restricted-shell-escape". But it is unclear to me what items to put in the file that specifies the ...
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1answer
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How to output a new line in a .txt file with \immediate\write18
I am trying to create a text file foobar.txt using \immediate\write18, and can not figure out how to properly get the \n so that Unix puts these lines on a new line. The MWE below produces one line ...
3
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1answer
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GraphViz and LaTeX; gives blank PDF
I've tried 4 different .sty files (most of which didn't work, some of which gave me errors on rendered page).
Now trying with the dot2texi package, which is giving me a blank PDF.
I have tried ...
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1answer
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texlive shell escape problems with psfrag
I work with some scripts that automatically convert the fonts in a plot using psfrag and pstool to another font.
However these fail if I use texlive. They work with Miktex.
Since I get requests from ...
4
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2answers
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Problems When Escaping from Listings
I would like to use LaTeX to document my C++ code, since I am able to typeset mathematics easily, as well as create diagrams using TikZ. I made a minimal LaTeX template for testing, but I have already ...
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votes
1answer
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Add space after LaTeX command
I'd like to call a command from LaTeX, which looks like this:
bash -c "\myCommand -Tpdf #2.dot > #2.pdf"
\myCommand is replaced by string variable, however the space after is also removed
so I ...
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1answer
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Biber not run automatically with `-shell-escape`?
I vaguely recall reading somewhere that biber can be run automatically by the biblatex package when -shell-escape is allowed.
Do I remember it wrong? As much as I try, biblatex only tells me to run ...
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1answer
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How can I enable write 18 on a MikTeX installation
I have tried my best, but don't seem to get this one right. How do I enable shell escape in MikTeX?
Why XeLaTeX comes with a default for shell escape but not LaTeX?
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1answer
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How to get DVI files vs PDF files when using pstricks, aquamacs, and mactex
My setup is generating DVI output vs PDF when using pstricks with Aquamacs 2.3a and MacTex 2011
Simple latex files will create pdf files as expected from inside aquamacs and auto view in skim. When ...
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1answer
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epstopdf warning: “Shell escape feature is not enabled.”
I'm having a bit of trouble trying to include .eps files in a LaTeX document compiled with pdfLaTeX. I've been told that I should use the epstopdf package to convert .eps files to .pdf on the fly.
...
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Enable --shell-escape in TexMaker [closed]
I am trying to use dot2texi package with Texmaker on a Mac, and I am aware that I need to enable shell escape in order to let TeX Live process using external packages. So I edit the commands in ...
8
votes
3answers
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Shell escape after PDF is finished and closed?
I like to escape to the shell using \write18 at the very end of the compilation after the PDF file got completely written and was closed, so that I can use it as part the shell command. Is this ...
4
votes
2answers
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Can TeX post-process the PDF it produces?
This is a follow-up to Can LaTeX be persuaded to produce text output?. Having discovered that pdftotext is the way to go, I'm curious as to whether it is possible to have TeX invoke that command on ...
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What are \immediate & \write18 and how does one use them?
What are \immediate and \write18 and how does one use them? I'd like some examples spanning from basic to advanced scenarios.
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1answer
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\write18 pass % through to shell
This has sort of been touched on in some other postings, but for path reasons I would like to avoid using a shell script and just use ImageMagick's (IM) convert command line executable directly from a ...
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2answers
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Write18: capturing shell (script) output as command/variable?
Let's say I compile the following file with pdflatex -shell-escape test.tex:
\documentclass{minimal}
\begin{document}
File listing is:
\immediate\write18{ls /usr}
\end{document}
This will send ...
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1answer
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Why does \jobname give *s instead of spaces, and how do I fix this?
When I LaTeX a file names test 1.tex with the code \edef\temp{\jobname.txt}\show\temp, I get
> \temp=macro:
->test*1.txt.
This seems to work fine with LaTeX's internal commands, but if I then ...
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votes
5answers
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How can I provide a verbatim (unescaped) commandline for executing with \write18?
When using \write18 to execute shell commands, there are some cases where lots of backslash strings, and other 'special' LaTeX characters are required in the commandline to be executed (e.g. if a ...
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4answers
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Test success of write18
For the new version of my package and class standalone I like to call external programs: further (pdf)latex runs to optionally compile included standalone files, and to convert the resulting PDF to ...
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votes
1answer
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adding vc to restricted write18 list
I want to use the vc bundle to add version information to my files. I'd like to go the "write18" route, rather than the makefile route, for now at least. I believe to make it work, I need to allow the ...
