Can you please describe the situation where texi2dvi is run on a
directory tree like the comment above suggests? I didn't think this
could happen.
I believe a LaTeX document might be set up that way. However, perhaps
cp -pr would be simpler.
The problem with this replacement is that on non-Posix platforms it
requires yet another ported utility (Tar)
Which is everywhere, right? I find it quite hard to imagine a system,
even MS-DOS, which has sufficient support to run texi2dvi (e.g., has
tex), but lacks tar.
and a very reliable support in the shell for Posix-style
(command...) semantics.
It's a pretty basic shell construct. Either the shell is implemented or
not. If it's not, I doubt texi2dvi will run at all. Heck, it makes use
of tons of user-defined functions now, which are a lot more obscure
feature than | and &&.
Unless you're saying you know it doesn't work in your shell, but I doubt
that's the case.
I'm most concerned by the set -e, myself.
Best,
karl
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