Re: [luatex] How to detect option '--shell-escape'?

[Andreas Scherer]

Thanks, David, for the pointer to 'shellesc.sty'. (Unlike 'iftex.sty', 
it can't be '\input' in pöain TeX.)

In 'pwebmac.tex' I reduced the code to
  \chardef\pdfshellescape
    \directlua{tex.sprint((status.shell_escape or os.execute()) .. " ")}

for LuaTeX and it works nicely further below in

  \ifpdflua \makebookmarks % added in Version 4.5
    \ifnum\pdfshellescape=1 {\let\\=\BS % count the @<named sections@>
      \global\countD=\input{|grep -c -e '\\:\\X' \jobname.tex}} \fi\fi

Cheers,
Andreas