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A bash script to clean latex temp files
#!/bin/bash
# Note: you might prefer latexmk -c since latexmk is great. It doesn't clean all of these, but see
# https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/83341/clean-bbl-files-with-latexmk-c/83386#83386
exts="-blx.aux -blx.bib -blx.bib .acn .acr .alg .algorithms .aux .bbl .bcf .blg .brf .dvi .fdb_latexmk .fls .glg"\
" .glo .gls .glsdefs .idx .ilg .ind .ist .keys .listing .loa .lof .log .lol .lot .maf .mtc .mtc0 .mw .nav .nlo"\
" .out .pdfsync .ptc .pyg .run.xml .snm .synctex.gz .syntex.gz(busy) .tdo .thm .toc .vrb .xdy"
for x in "${@:-.}"; do
arg=$(echo ${x:-.} | perl -pe 's/\.(tex|pdf)$//')
if [[ -d "$arg" ]]; then
for ext in $exts; do
rm -f "$arg"/*$ext
done
else
for ext in $exts; do
rm -f "$arg"$ext
done
fi
done
# rm -rf $(biber --cache) # gross biber bug
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