> path = run("--expand-path=\\\$#{varname}") rescue ''
>
> to
>
> path = run("--expand-path=\$#{varname}") rescue ''
I also ran into this (a few weeks ago on the list) and the patch I
sent Hans after testing it on my Ubuntu Linux laptop was to use two
backslashes:
run("--expand-path=\\$#{varname}")
so that Unix sees the command as, for example,
kpsewhich --expand-path=\$TEXMFLOCAL
which prevents the shell from expanding TEXMFLOCAL as a shell or
environment variable, leaving it for kpse to find it in texmf.cnf.
Interesting that \$ also works. I guess the \ gets passed unchanged,
so the $ still gets procted from the shell.
By the way, the rescue '' doesn't do anything, since a failed run of
kpsewhich doesn't throw an exception. I think I have a patch for
that.
Hans, should I resend those patches?
-Sanjoy
`Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
--Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
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