Re: texi2dvi: set -e, use tar

[Akim Demaille]

>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <address@hidden> writes:

 >     Tar will be available only if the user takes care to download and
 >     install it.

 > And if they are smart enough to download and install texinfo *and* bash
 > *and* tex, they will 99.9% surely have done so, long ago.  And even if
 > not, it will surely be trivial for them to do so, if they care -- tar is
 > much simpler to install and deal with than texinfo and tex.  I don't see
 > this as an argument not to use tar.

Anyway, tar was convenient, and this idiom is quite well known, but I
don't care about using or not using tar.  I just need

    my_cp chap1/main.aux chap2/main.aux $work_bak

to do what I need.  Feel free to send a shell script implementation.