Simple bash script to compile a LaTeX document with pdflatex, and clean up auxillary output files.

latexcompile

#!/bin/bash
#
# latexcompile
# Keefer Rourke <[email protected]>
#
# To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with
# latexcompile has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights
# to latexcompile.
#
# See <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/> for a copy of
# the CC0 legalcode.

if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "usage: latexcompile FILE.tex [--open]"
    echo "cleanly compile LaTeX documents to PDF without cluttering the" \
	  working directory."
    exit 2
fi

BASE="${1%.*}"

pdflatex $1 2>/dev/null 1>&2

if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "Compilation error. Check log."
    exit 1
fi

rm "$BASE.log" "$BASE.aux" "$BASE.out"

if [ $2 == "--open" ] || [ $2 == "-o" ]; then
    xdg-open "$BASE.pdf"
fi
exit 0

Quick dirty script to keep me sane while working on LaTeX documents.