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=".aux .lof .log .lot .fls .out .toc .dvi .bbl .bcf .blg -blx.aux -blx.bib -blx.bib .run.xml .fdb_latexmk .synctex.gz .syntex.gz(busy) .pdfsync .algorithms .alg .loa .thm .nav .snm .vrb .acn .acr .glg .glo .gls .brf .lol .idx .ilg .ind .ist .maf .mtc .mtc0 .pyg .nlo .tdo .xdy .keys"

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

Nice one!

Much appreciated!

Great!

I also like to remove the generated stuff from biber / biblatex. Therefore I extended the exts variable to also remove bcf and run.xml files.
More information about the file extensions can be found here: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/7770/file-extensions-related-to-latex-etc

Thanks.
I added synctex to the list of extensions (because I don't gzip the synctex file because it doesn't work with my PDF viewer; this is done with -synctex=-1)