[Dev-luatex] another stupid question ...

[Hans Hagen]

Norbert Preining wrote:
> .... since here are so many so intelligent people ;-)
> 
> On unix I can remove the current interpreter, ie I can do
> 	#!/usr/bin/perl
> 	unlink("/usr/bin/perl");
> and this will succeed (if I have permissions).
> 
> On windows (again) this doesn't work. I am running the uninstall program
> which is a texlua script but the rmdir /q ... of bin/win32 does not
> succeed.
> 
> The texlua script is invoked via usual win32 methods, i.e. the extension
> ..texlua is linked to the texlua interpreter, and the .texlua extension
> is added to the PATHEXT to be searched, and bin/win32 is in the PATH env
> var.
> 
> Well, in the worst case we have to live with a rogue texlua.exe
> somewhere.
> 
> Any other ideas?

just do it in the calling script, say remover.bat:

texlua remover.lua
del /q texlua.exe remover.bat




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