Disable backup entirely?

[alok]

I really don't want to save any backups, and would like to leave that task up to version control as I find the backup file to be unnecessary clutter. Is there a way to do this?

[cmhughes]

You can use the following

latexindent myfile -o myfile

But I don't recommend it!

[alok]

What if it's being read from STDIN and being written to STDOUT (my use case since I have it integrated with an editor)?

[cmhughes]

Back up files are only made when the -w flag is active.

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[alok]

If I create a new directory dir with a single file a.tex in it, and then do this:

cd dir
latexindent < a.tex

It creates indent.log anyway, even though -w was not passed to it.

[cmhughes]

The log file is not a backup file, it's a log file :)

You can redirect it to a different directory using the -c switch. Alternatively, you can hide it using, for example

latexindent -g=.indent.log

[alok]

Alright, I'll redirect to /dev/null.

[alok]

Turns out redirecting to /dev/null gives the error Can't open /dev/null at /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/scripts/latexindent/LatexIndent/Document.pm line 165, <> line 309.

[cmhughes]

Can you confirm the version you're using? Did this behaviour change because of an update?

[cmhughes]

OK, so how about I remove the 'die' statement for log file creation?

[alok]

using version 3.9.1 (bundled with mactex 2021).

which die statement is that exactly?

[cmhughes]

latexindent.pl/LatexIndent/Document.pm

Line 165 in e198fa5

open($logfile,">","${$self}{cruftDirectory}/$logfileName") or die "Can't open $logfileName";

Should be able to remove the die statement without issue.... Some experimentation needed, but should be ok

[cmhughes]

If you change line 165 of the above file to

open($logfile,">","${$self}{cruftDirectory}/$logfileName");

does that help....?

[cmhughes]

logfile die process removed as of da2b15e. this will be part of the next release.

[cmhughes]

Related, for reference: #333 and #354