A quick way to build LaTeX files while purging the auxiliary files pdflatex generates.

quicktex.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Generate a PDF from a `.tex` file, then remove the auxiliary files with the same base name.
# 
# Usage:
#   ./quicktex.sh myfile.tex


# the first argument should be the tex file, either with or without extension
file="$1"
# remove the suffix (if it's .tex)
file="${file%.tex}"
[ "${file:0:1}" == "/" ] || file="${PWD}/${file}"
pdffile="${file%.tex}.pdf"

# run pdflatex and bibtex, then pdflatex again to get references right
pdflatex "${file}" && bibtex "${file}" && pdflatex "${file}" && pdflatex "${file}" 

# clean the files
rm -f "$file""."{aux,bak,bbl,blg,log,out,toc,tdo}  #brace expansion