[tex-live] How to do the following?

[David Kastrup]

"Zdenek Wagner" <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> writes:

> 2006/10/3, David Kastrup <dak at gnu.org>:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to call some executable, preloading a format and running a
>> file that might contain spaces in the file name.
>>
>> latex &format "file name with spaces"
>>
>> does not work whereas
>>
>> latex "file name with spaces"
>>
>> would actually work, but not preload a format.
>>
> I think that ampersand is the source of problem because it has special
> meanings in various shells and must be escaped. Some shell would
> require latex \&format ...

No, no.  I am not that stupid, I just forgot the quotes in the
posting.

latex "&format" "file name with spaces"

is what will not work in the described manner.

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