arxiv.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This is safe to run in your paper directory, as it creates a copy of the files.
# to be uploaded in the $dest directory below.
# It assumes latexmk is used, and latexmk outputs go into a _build directory.

set -e

# build, as we need the bbl file
latexmk

dest=_build/arxiv
mkdir -p "$dest"

scrub() {
  perl -p0e "s/\\\\begin\\{comment\\}.*\\\\end\\{comment\\}//se" < "$1" | perl -pe 's/(^|[^\\])%.*/\1%/' > "$2"
}

for file in *.tex; do
  if [ -f "$file" ]; then
    echo "$file scrubbed"
    filename=$(basename "$file")
    dest_file="$dest/$filename"
    scrub "$file" "$dest_file"
  fi
done

# don't include bib
cp {*.cls,latexmkrc,_build/main.bbl} "$dest"

(cd $dest && tar -czvf archive.tar.gz *)

mv $dest/archive.tar.gz .

echo "upload this:"
ls archive.tar.gz