Shell script to "compile" LaTeX documents and generate PDF.

maketex

#! /bin/bash

TEXFILE=$1

if [ ! -f $1.tex ]; then
    echo "$1.tex doesn't exist";
    exit 0;
fi



#Created 'aux' directory if it doesn't exist
[ ! -f ./aux ] && mkdir aux

latex -interaction=errorstopmode --output-directory=aux $TEXFILE.tex
latex -interaction=errorstopmode --output-directory=aux $TEXFILE.tex

cd aux
dvipdfm ./$TEXFILE.dvi
cd ..
mv aux/$TEXFILE.pdf ./$TEXFILE.pdf