L3SYS-QUERY(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

✨ l3sys-query(1) ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual entry for l3sys-query 💅 this is the group chat where TeX gets to peek at your system, and honestly? it's giving ✨competent✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

l3sys-query — the little script that lets your TeX run ask the system questions 🫶

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

l3sys-query <cmd> [<options>] [<args>]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the l3sys-query script is literally a whole method for TeX runs to get system information, and it does that via shell escape to Lua ✨

Is it as powerful as the similar Java script texosquery? no babe, the facilities are more limited, and that's just the truth 😭 but here's the slay: because it uses Lua, l3sys-query can be used 'out of the box' with any installed TeX system 💖 no extra setup, no cap.

And the security girlies ate: the script is written taking account of the TeX Live security requirement, so it's suitable for use with restricted shell escape — which is the <em>standard setting</em> when you install a TeX system 👑

bestie this matters. restricted shell escape is the default, and this thing was built with that in mind. it's not a "disable your security" situation, iykyk 💅

⭐ COMMANDS ⭐

valid <cmd>s, periodt:

  • ls — prints a listing based on the <args> and <options> 🍓
  • pwd — prints the present working directory 🧚

👑 OPTIONS 👑

valid <options>, and yes we're doing all of them, no skipping:

  • --exclude [<xarg>] — excludes entries from the directory listing 🙈
  • --help, -h — prints this message and exits 💀
  • --ignore-case — ignore case when sorting the directory listing 🔥
  • --pattern, -p — treat the (x)args as a Lua pattern ✨
  • --recursive, -r — activates recursive directory listing 🌈
  • --reverse — reversing the sorting order 🙃
  • --sort [name|date] — the method used to sort the directory listing ⭐
  • --type [d|f] — select just the directories or the files in a listing 💖
  • --version, -v — prints version information and exits 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Copyright (C) 2024 The LaTeX Project 🫶

not me ending this the correct way: this page is from LaTeX, dated 2024-04-08, and it's the L3SYS-QUERY(1) entry bestie 💅✨ slay, go query your system 🦋
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