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The texdistmgr tool and modern TeXDist design

A named texdistmgr 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.

texdistmgr execute -d gwTeX -c "kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf"

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

texdist --texdist=TeXLive-2013 "kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf"

will do the same with the TeX Live 2013 distribution. See "texdistmgr -h" for complete and up to date instructions...

texdistmgr is available as part of the texdist preference bundle and is symlinked from /usr/local/bin/texdistmgr or at least ~/Library/TeX/Distributions/bin/texdistmgr.

The TeXDist2 directory structure and use are explained in a note from G. Wierda.

See the official documentation:

TeXDist2-description