[OS X TeX] [OT: sed] Does not find my private texmf tree

Maarten Sneep maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl
Wed Sep 5 07:28:30 EDT 2007


Martin Costabel schreef:
> Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> (taken from a recent
>> message by Maarten Sneep, and yes there's indeed a line break in the
>> command):
>>
>> kpsewhich -show-path=tex -progname=latex| sed 's/:/\
>> /g'
>
> Small remark: Instead of the sed command with the line break, which in
> addition does not work with tcsh, it is simpler to use tr,
>
>   kpsewhich -show-path=tex -progname=latex| tr : '\n'

But then, who uses tcsh :p

sed on linux allows for escapes, so there you can use: sed 's/:/\n/g', but
to my surprise that didn't work on my Mac, and therefore this alternative.
tr is of course the tool meant to be used here.

Best,

Maarten


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