I need to run latex from command line for a project on OS X. LaTeX is installed in:
/usr/local/texlive/2010
in the bin folder there are three folders:
/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/universal-darwin
/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/win32
/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/x86_64-darwin
both "universal-darwin" and "x86_64-darwin" have the executable file "latex". I ran this line in both of these directories and received the same error.
./latex /Users/fluid/Desktop/sample.tex
Here is the error
fluid:x86_64-darwin fluid$ ./latex /Users/fluid/Desktop/sample.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.11 (TeX Live 2010)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
! I can't write on file `sample.log'.
(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit; default file extension is `.log')
Please type another transcript file name:
and here is the file sample.tex
\documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document}\begin{center}Sample \LaTeX{} file\end{center}Here is an equation\begin{equation}f(x) = e^x\end{equation}\end{document}How can I make this work?
