Quickly compile American Meteorological Society template LaTeX files into a PDF for publication

publishTex.sh

#! /usr/bin/env bash
# publishTex.sh
# 2010-06-08
# This is a quick script to help produce a PDF from .tex files for AMS publication.
# Run it from Bash like so:
# ./publishTex.sh sample.tex

if [ ! -e "$1" ]
then
    echo "The file or directory given does not seem to exist."
    exit 1
fi

filename=${1/${1: -4}}

echo "########## $(date +%F) - RUNNING LATEX1 ##########"
latex $filename.tex
echo "########## $(date +%F) - RUNNING BIBTEX ##########"
bibtex $filename
echo "########## $(date +%F) - RUNNING LATEX2 ##########"
latex $filename.tex
echo "########## $(date +%F) - RUNNING LATEX FINAL ##########"
latex $filename.tex
echo "########## $(date +%F) - CONVERTING DVI TO PS ##########"
dvips $filename.dvi -o $filename.ps
echo "########## $(date +%F) - CONVERTING PS TO PDF ##########"
ps2pdf14 $filename.ps
echo "########## $(date +%F) - ALL DONE! ##########"