pipetex2tex

CLI to convert LaTeX source with piped \input{|...} commands into pure LaTeX.

Install

pip install pipetex2tex

Usage

pipetex2tex manuscript.tex > manuscript_with_executed_commands.tex
cat manuscript.tex | pipetex2tex > manuscript_cmds.tex

Or in python:

import pipetex2tex as p2t

tex = "There's \inp{|python -c 'print(int(24*60*60*365.25))'} seconds in a year."
print("source:", tex)
print("out   :", p2t.convert(tex), '\n')

tex = "There's $\input { | ls -al ~ | wc -l }$ files/directories in your user directory."
print("source:", tex)
print("out   :", p2t.convert(tex))

Results in

source: There's \inp{|python -c 'print(int(24*60*60*365.25))'} seconds in a year.
out   : There's 31557600 seconds in a year.

source: There's $\input { | ls -al ~ | wc -l }$ files/directories in your user directory.
out   : There's $      62$ files/directories in your user directory.