A Makefile to compile tex documents (using pdf latex) which filters the overwhelming amount of logs and just shows error messages instead. Change the name of the tex file to compile at the first line of the script.

Makefile

FILE=NAME-OF-THE-TEX-FILE-WITHOUT-EXTENSION-HERE
TEMP_FILE_EXTENSIONS=log aux lol lof loc soc lot bit idx glo bbl brf nlo nls ilg toc ind out blg synctex.gz snm nav dvi tdo spl
all: clean build

build: 
	make pdf 
	make bib 
	make pdf 
	make pdf

pdf:
	pdflatex -file-line-error -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "$(FILE).tex" | grep -e ".*:[0-9]*:.*" || true

bib:
	bibtex "$(FILE).aux"
	
clean:
	$(foreach ext,$(TEMP_FILE_EXTENSIONS),rm -rf *.$(ext);)

wordcount:
	texcount -sum -total *.tex

#aliases for the "wordcount" target
wordscount: wordcount
wc: wordcount