Create PDF from a .tex file

maketexpdf.sh

#!/bin/bash
#title           :makepdf.sh
#description     :This script (double) compiles a tex file into a pdf and cleans up everything afterwards.
#author		 :Arik Grahl, Robert Greinacher
#date            :2014-07-18
#version         :0.1
#usage		 :bash makepdf.sh FILENAME.TEX
#notes           :Install latex, pdflatex to use this script. The one liner ca be used in e.g. your .vimrc to automatically compile a tex file right out of vim
#bash_version    :any
#====================================================================

# check for given arguments
if [ "$1" != "" ]; then
	
	# check if the biber citation management tool is used
	if file *.bib; then
		pdflatex -shell-escape -halt-on-error -file-line-error $1
		biber `basename $1 .tex`
		pdflatex -shell-escape -halt-on-error -file-line-error $1
	fi;

	#compile and clean up
	pdflatex -shell-escape -halt-on-error -file-line-error $1
	rm -f *.aux *.log *gnuplot* *.bbl *.bcf *.blg *.fdb *.fdb_latexmk *.fls *.lof *.out *.xml *.toc
else
	echo "usage: $0 TEXFILE"
fi