Nicola Talbot submitted the
texosquery
package.
Version: 1.0 2016-07-08 License: lppl1.3
Summary description: Cross-platform Java application to query OS information
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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.
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The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at http://www.ctan.org/pkg/texosquery
The package's files themselves can be inspected at http://mirror.ctan.org/support/texosquery/
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Thanks for the upload.
For the CTAN Team Petra Rübe-Pugliese
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