Using tlmgr.bat under bash on MS-Windows
Arash Esbati
arash at gnu.org
Mon Nov 22 13:19:36 CET 2021
Hi all,
I use bash packaged with Msys2 on MS-Windows. All .exe file provided by
TeXlive run without problems in a bash shell. One thing that doesn't
run for obvious reasons is tlmgr.bat, alas, I have to open a cmd box to
update TeXlive. Here is a one-line wrapper for bash to run tlmgr.bat:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#!/bin/sh
# This is a small wrapper around tlmgr.bat in order to use it under
# bash from Msys2. Note the double // for escaping /
cmd.exe //c tlmgr.bat "$@"; exit $?
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
I'm not sure if it makes sense to add this to TeXlive for Windows. But
maybe it helps others.
Best, Arash
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