[tex-live] Status of restricted \write18 and epstopdf conversion
Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard
mpg at elzevir.fr
Sun Oct 18 23:12:13 CEST 2009
Hi Alexander,
>> repstopdf --debug --outfile="$(echo hi >~/pwned; echo foo.pdf)" foo.eps
>
> (probably you mean single quotes here, so command substitution happens
> when calling gs, not when calling repstopdf)
>
Yep. Actually, I was thinking of
\write18{repstopdf --debug --outfile="$(echo hi >\string~/pwned; echo
foo.pdf)" foo.eps}
> I've also thought about all this quoting but only after sending the
> email out:-( That requires some work...
> Other issue here is environment variables like %TEMP% on Windows.
>
Yep. That's why I don't want to try catching every single shell and
cmd.exe feature: I'm sure I'd forget something.
> This is also not that easy but you seem to manage it (just received
> your next mail), nice. Will look into the new version now.
>
It is actually very easy on Unix, the only problem being with windows.
I'm looking forward to hearing your comments on the new version.
Manuel.
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