CTAN update: texosquery
- Renamed scratch variable to avoid conflict. - The default version set in texosquery.cfg is now texosquery-jre8 since Java 7 has long passed its end of life and texosquery-jre8 has been on the restricted list since 2017. (If you have Java 5, 6 or 7 or if you don't have texosquery-jre8 on your restricted list then you need to edit your texosquery.cfg file to reflect your system settings.) - Modified bash scripts to improve cygwin support.
This package is located at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/texosquery More information is at https://www.ctan.org/pkg/texosquery
Thanks for the upload. For the CTAN Team Erik Braun
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texosquery – Cross-platform Java application to query OS information
This package provides a cross-platform Java application to query OS information designed for use in TeX’s shell escape mechanism.
The application can query the following:
- locale and codeset
- current working directory
- user home directory
- temporary directory
- OS name, arch and version
- Current date and time in PDF format (for TeX formats that don’t provide \pdfcreationdate)
- Date-time stamp of a file in PDF format (for TeX formats that don't provide \pdffilemoddate)
- Size of a file in bytes (for TeX formats that don’t provide \pdffilesize)
- Contents of a directory (captured as a list)
- Directory contents filtered by regular expression (captured as a list)
- URI of a file
- Canonical path of a file
All paths use a forward slash as directory divider so results can be used, for example, in commands like \includegraphics.
There are files provided for easy access in TeX documents:
- texosquery.tex: generic TeX code
- texosquery.sty: LaTeX package
This provides commands to run texosquery using TeX’s shell escape mechanism and capture the result in a control sequence. The category code of most of TeX’s default special characters (and some other potentially problematic characters) is temporarily changed to 12 while reading the result.
| Package | texosquery |
| Version | 1.7 2020-02-04 |
| Copyright | 2016–2020 Nicola Talbot |
| Maintainer | Nicola Talbot |