Hello, I have tested tcsh, ksh and bash and all fail to show the problem.
$ tcsh --version tcsh 6.18.01 (Astron) 2012-02-14 (amd64-sun-solaris) options wide,nls,dl,al,kan,rh,color,filec $ tcsh > echo x | xelatex \\showthe\\everyjob This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2017/dev) (preloaded format=xelatex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode LaTeX2e <2015/01/01> Babel <3.9l> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded. > \typeout {\fmtname \space <\fmtversion >}\typeout {Babel <3.9l> and hyphenati on patterns for 79 languages loaded.}. <*> \showthe\everyjob ? No pages of output. > exit $ ksh --version version sh (AT&T Research) 93t+ 2010-03-05 $ ksh $:…sources/BACKUP/utils/fontforge$ echo x | xelatex \\showthe\\everyjob This is XeTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-0.99996 (TeX Live 2017/dev) (preloaded format=xelatex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode LaTeX2e <2015/01/01> Babel <3.9l> and hyphenation patterns for 79 languages loaded. > \typeout {\fmtname \space <\fmtversion >}\typeout {Babel <3.9l> and hyphenati on patterns for 79 languages loaded.}. <*> \showthe\everyjob ? No pages of output. Even if I change xelatex \\showthe\\everyjob to xelatex \showthe\everyjob I do not see the problem. A.S. ---------------------- Apostolos Syropoulos Xanthi, Greece -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex