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The texdist tool and TeXDist design

A shell script named texdist allows to run a command in the context of a given distribution. It provides an interface to the TeX Distribution structures. The script Basic functions are listing and running commands. E.g.

texdist gwTeX "kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf"

will run the "kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf" command with the gwTeX distribution, while

texdist TeXLive-2005 "kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf"

will do the same with the TeX Live 2005 distribution. See "texdist --usage" for complete instructions...

texdist is placed in /Library/TeX/.scripts (invisible in the Finder) and it is symlinked from /usr/local/bin.

The TeXDist directory structure and use are explained in a note from G. Wierda.

See the official documentation:

TeXDist-description