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bug #310: Need automated way to prevent duplicate files when using -d option

Submitted by:  Nasser M. Abbasi <nma123>
Submitted on:  Sun Jun 5 04:06:10 2016  
 
Category: NonePriority: 5 - Normal
Severity: 3 - MinorStatus: None
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: Closed

Fri Jul 17 15:57:59 2020, comment #2:

It doesn't seem like a good idea to delete any generated files automatically, so the post-processing script from my previous message is probably still the best solution.

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Wed Jun 8 12:20:18 2016, comment #1:

You can use the following script in your build file:

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kpse.set_program_name "luatex"
local lg_file = arg[1]
-- list of removed extensions
local patterns = arg[2] or "html,css"

if not lg_file then
print "No input file"
os.exit()
end

lg_file = lg_file:gsub("tex$","lg")
if not lg_file:match "lg$" then
lg_file = lg_file ..".lg"
end

local removed_extensions = {}
for ext in patterns:gmatch("([^,]+)") do
removed_extensions[ext] = true
end

function file_exists(name)
local f=io.open(name,"r")
if f~=nil then io.close(f) return true else return false end
end

local current_dir = lfs.currentdir()
local remove = function(filename)
local removed = current_dir .."/" .. filename
if file_exists(removed) then
print("Removing", removed)
os.remove(removed)
end
end

local files = {}
local images = {}

local file_pattern = "File: (.*)"
local image_pattern = "--- needs --- .-==> ([^%s]+) ---"

for line in io.lines(lg_file) do
local file_match = line:match(file_pattern)
local image_match = line:match(image_pattern)
files[#files + 1] = file_match
images[#images + 1] = image_match
end

for _, v in ipairs(files) do
local ext = v:match "([^%.]+)$"
if removed_extensions[ext] then
remove(v)
end
end
for _,v in ipairs(images) do
remove(v)
end

------

you can call it with command

texlua removefiles.lua texfilename "listofremovedextensions"

list of removed extensions isn't necessary, it removes html and css files by default. and of course images generated from the DVI file.

Michal Hoftich <michal_h21>
Project Member
Sun Jun 5 04:06:10 2016, original submission:

I've posted this before about this issue here http://tug.org/pipermail/tex4ht/2016q2/001474.html and thought will be good idea to enter it as bug so to remember it and record it.

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When building with -d <folder_name>, as in

make4ht foo.tex -d some_folder

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(or using htlatex), what happens is this: all the files generated during the build, the html files and the small image files (one for each math expression) are first generated in the current folder (where the latex file is), then at the end they are copied to the destination folder.

So one ends up with 1000's of duplicate small files (.htm and many .png or .svg, which are used for the math) in two places.

Here is MWE, say one is in /home/A/ folder:

-------------------------------
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
$\frac{\sin(x)}{2}$
\end{document}
----------------------------------

compile with

make4ht foo.tex -d foo

Now there will copy of foo0x.png and foo.htm and foo.css in both A/* (where the latex file was) and also in A/foo/*

It will be nice to have the build or some automated command to safely remove the duplicated files that are generated during the build only from the current folder when using -d option.

TL 2015

Nasser M. Abbasi <nma123>

 

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