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

[Enrico Gregorio]

> On 26 Jan 2018, at 15:59 , Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe at math.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> I tried your experiment with the file
> 
> 	% cat /var/tmp/noinput.tex 
> 	---\input"|echo $(date)--
> 	---\input"|echo $(date)--
> 	\bye
> 
> and with both
> 
> 	xetex -shell-escape noinput
> 	xetex -shell-escape -no-pdf noinput && xdvipdfmx noinput
> 
> on my new TeX Live 2018 build on GNU/Linux (CentOS 7), I got expected
> PDF files with output similar to this:
> 
> 	--Fri Jan 26 06:52:15 MST 2018 --
> 	--Fri Jan 26 06:52:15 MST 2018 --

Yes, it seems a specific issue with MacTeX.

I tried on a vanilla TeX Live on Fedora and on TeX Live/Debian 2016,
the result is as expected in both cases.

Ciao
Enrico