A bash script to clean latex temp files

latex-clean.sh

#!/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