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I have two aux files attached to my LaTeX document : aux_1 and aux_2. I would like, at some point, to copy the content of aux_1 to aux_2.

More precisely, the file aux_1 does already contain some text. I want to copy the content of aux_2 after the already existing text.

Is it possible to do it ? I use the newfile package to deal with the aux files.

PS : If possible, I would like a LaTeX-friendly answer :)

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\write18{cp aux_1 aux_2}

(On Windows, use copy instead, I think.)

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    \immediate\write18 if the command needs to be performed at a precise moment; without \immediate it will be deferred to the next shipout operation (that might never happen).
    – egreg
    Oct 14, 2011 at 9:29
  • @egreg: Good advice, though that makes my answer more serious than I intended it. I'm just pushing my "why do that in LaTeX when you have a perfectly good OS instead" angle on excessive TeX programming.
    – Ryan Reich
    Oct 14, 2011 at 14:45
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    I suspect that your proposition will overwrite aux_1 to aux_2.
    – Colas
    Oct 18, 2011 at 15:56
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    @Colas: Yes, it will. You can use a different operating system utility that will append them, e.g. cat, if you want that. As I said, my point is that this is not a TeX task and the solution is to use \write18 to farm it out to the system.
    – Ryan Reich
    Oct 18, 2011 at 16:38
  • Thanks ! I understand that I do strange things, sorry about that :)
    – Colas
    Oct 18, 2011 at 16:41

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