New on CTAN: texosquery

[CTAN Announcements]

Nicola Talbot submitted the

                texosquery

package.

Version:  1.0  2016-07-08
License:  lppl1.3

Summary description:  Cross-platform Java application to query OS information

Announcement text:
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 The application can query the following:

  - locale and codeset
  - current working directory
  - user home directory
  - temporary directory
  - OS name, arch and version
  - Current date and time in PDF format
    (for TeX formats that don't provide \pdfcreationdate)
  - Date-time stamp of a file in PDF format
    (for TeX formats that don't provide \pdffilemoddate)
  - Size of a file in bytes
    (for TeX formats that don't provide \pdffilesize)
  - Contents of a directory (captured as a list)
  - Directory contents filtered by regular expression
    (captured as a list)
  - URI of a file
  - Canonical path of a file

 All paths use a forward slash as directory divider so results
 can be used, for example, in commands like \includegraphics.

 There are files provided for easy access in TeX documents:

  - texosquery.tex : generic TeX code
  - texosquery.sty : LaTeX package

 This provides commands to run texosquery using TeX's shell
 escape mechanism and capture the result in a control sequence.
 The category code of most of TeX's default special characters
 (and some other potentially problematic characters) is
 temporarily changed to 12 while reading the result.

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The package's Catalogue entry can be viewed at
   http://www.ctan.org/pkg/texosquery

The package's files themselves can be inspected at
   http://mirror.ctan.org/support/texosquery/

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   Thanks for the upload.

     For the CTAN Team
    Petra Rübe-Pugliese

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