General ⇒ Multiple Source File Rendering

[rgrice]

Hi,

Apologies in advance if I've posted this in the wrong area.

Basically my question is just this. Is there any way in which multiple source files can be processed by XeLaTeX to create the corresponding separate PDF files within one XeLaTeX session?

For example, the following XeLaTeX call just creates the first file "59dab.pdf", not "62dab.pdf" or "96dab.pdf".

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/home/rgrice/PPA/build/DTP/XML2Tex:> xelatex -interaction=batchmode -output-directory=/home/rgrice/PPA/runtime/tmp \
/home/rgrice/PPA/runtime/tmp/59dab.tex \
/home/rgrice/PPA/runtime/tmp/62dab.tex \
/home/rgrice/PPA/runtime/tmp/96dab.tex

Therefore if I have multiple source files in a directory can I process them in one XeLaTeX call rather than calling XeLaTeX for each individually to create the three PDF files. I have 2200+ source files that I wish to process and calling XeLaTeX for each one is quite time consuming.


Thanks
Richard

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Richard,

on Linux I would use find and xargs, compiling all .tex files in a directory and all subdirectories:

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find "." -name "*.tex" | xargs xelatex

On Windows - I would boot Linux. Or use andLinux or Cygwin. Or a Windows scripting language.

Stefan

[rgrice]

Hi Stefan,

Thanks again for the quick reply ... yes I'm working on RedHat Linux so xargs sounds perfect.

However, when I run the command

find "." -name '*.tex' | xargs xelatex

to process the three files 59dab.tex, 62dab.tex and 96dab.tex it seems to process just the first file 59dab.tex.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Richard,

you could do it with just the find command and the -exec option, instead of using xargs:

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find "." -name "*.tex" -exec xelatex '{}' \;

Stefan