Call bibtex on all .aux files in directory with given base.

multi-bibtex

#!/usr/bin/python
'''
A call to this script 
  multi-bibtex [options] texfile[.aux]
will result in the commands
  bibtex [options] file.aux
being called for every file in the folder of texfile which 
starts with "texfile".
This is useful, for example, when you want to use bibtex
(as opposed to biber which does what we want automatically) 
with the tex package biblatex's environment refsection,
which creates multiple .aux files, one for each refsection.
'''

import sys
import os
import subprocess

if __name__ == "__main__":

    filename = sys.argv[-1]
    args = sys.argv[1:-2]
    suffix = '.aux'
    bibtex = 'bibtex'

    folder = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(filename))
    texfile = os.path.basename(filename)
    if suffix in texfile:
        texfile = texfile[:-4]

    for f in os.listdir(folder):
        if texfile in f and suffix in f:
            cmd = [bibtex] + args + [f]
            print ">>> Calling: {}".format(" ".join(cmd))
            subprocess.call(cmd)