Ralf Stubner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> texmfvar=$(kpsewhich --expand-path '$TEXMFVAR') >> if ! echo "$texmfvar" | grep -e ':'; then >> output_file="$texmfvar/$PATH_COMPONENT/$DEFAULT_OUTPUTFILE_BASENAME" [...] > One could use > > texmfvar=$(kpsewhich --var-value=TEXMFVAR) > > which works even when the directory in question does not yet exist.
Yes - but then the grep must be for ',', and I hope that is all that needs to be changed. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)

