Fix return code parsing error

[dmcdougall]

I got an error when compiling the following with pdflatex -shell-escape eg.tex. The error was:

(./eg.out) (./eg.out) [1{/opt/local/var/db/texmf/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex
.map}pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifier (name{equation
.2.2}) has been already used, duplicate ignored

\AtBegShi@Output ...ipout \box \AtBeginShipoutBox
                                                  \fi \fi
l.84 \begin{verbatim}
                     pdfTeX warning (ext4): destination with the same identifie
r (name{equation.2.2}) has been already used, duplicate ignored

\AtBegShi@Output ...ipout \box \AtBeginShipoutBox
                                                  \fi \fi
l.84 \begin{verbatim}
                     ] [2] (./eg1.py.out)
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
                   n
l.152 \end{python}

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! Missing = inserted for \ifnum.
<to be read again>
                   n
l.152 \end{python}

?
! Missing number, treated as zero.
<to be read again>
                   n
l.152 \end{python}

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! You can't use `\numexpr' in horizontal mode.
\ifnumcomp ...\ifnum \numexpr #1\relax #2\numexpr
                                                  #3\relax \expandafter \@fi...
l.152 \end{python}

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[3] (./eg.aux) )</opt/local/share/texmf-texlive-dist/fonts/type1/public/amsfont

It turns out the write18 command was printing the -n flag to the .rc file. I removed the -n flag and everything now works. Tested only on a Mac. I'm not sure about linux.

[brotchie]

Thanks, was working fine on Linux, never tested on OSX. I'll check that this change doesn't break Linux support. If so, then perhaps there's some way of conditionally adding the -n when the OS is OSX.

[dmcdougall]

Yeah, I'm not sure why it's doing that. I can also try testing on linux at work and see what happens. This might be one of those weird GNU/BSD issues that crop up occasionally when dealing with shell commands.