Pass arguments to pdflatex?

[harieamjari]

Would it be possible to pass arguments like, -shell-escape to pdflatex? I tried doing pdflatex%20-shell-escape but it treats this as only a command, not a command and an argument.

[harieamjari]

I was trying to append a git hash to my document by doing

\immediate\write18{git rev-parse --short HEAD > commit.txt}

\title{Research}
\author{Harieamjari\\
(Revision: \input{commit.txt})}

[harieamjari]

Anyway, I was able to do:

\input{.git/refs/heads/master}