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My program produces multiple outputs: I have a .tex file compiled, and some of them are produced in the command-line. The compilation info of pdf-latex is useless to me and I would like to hide it to make my command-line output readable.
I have seen this site mention some box-thicking should do it, but I haven't found a command-line equivalent.
The texio library provided by luatex provides more control over message formatting and does not insert a space:
\def\mymessage#1{\directlua{texio.write("\luaescapestring{#1}")}}
\mymessage{.}\mymessage{.}\mymessage{.}
\bye
The result is:
grendel:io sharpie$ luatex io.tex
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.2-2010071218 (TeX Live 2010) (rev 3736)
(./io.tex... )
No pages of output.
I'm not sure if this exactly what you need, but with help of grep you can do something. Let's say I want to compile my tex file via terminal. pdflatex Untitled.tex does the job. However, I can pipe the output of this into grep and use color feature of grep to highlight a word (in this example "pdf")
pdflatex Untitled.tex | grep -E --color "pdf|$"
The result of this line is something like this:
You can easily do the same for the log file using following code:
grep --color -E "Missing|$" Untitled.log
In this case I'm highlighting the word "Missing" and of course you can do this for "error" or any other words:
What is done here, is simply piping the output (of the log file or pdflatex) to grep, highlighting a key word, and printing mismatched words as well (by the use of "$").
I'm not a cmake guy but if you can pipe it's our put to grep, it probably will work as well.
Best Answer
You can either redirect all of the
pdflatexoutput:pdflatex ... > /dev/null 2>&1pdflatex ... > NUL 2>&1Or you can use the
-quietoption: