Helper script to create a publishable tarball containing all the TeX-sources

create_publishable_tarball.sh

#!/bin/bash

PROJ="paper-724_"
INDIR="final/"
OUTDIR="$(date +%Y-%m-%d)_${PROJ}"
CWD="$(pwd)"
ARCH=".zip" # or .tar.gz

# Create tmp directory
TMP=$(mktemp -d)
mkdir -p ${TMP}/${OUTDIR}

cp -r ${INDIR}/* ${TMP}/${OUTDIR}/

cd ${TMP}/${OUTDIR}/

# Build the doc
make purge
rm -rf copyright-agreement
rm -rf .auctex-auto

cd ${TMP}

if [[ ${ARCH} == ".zip" ]];
   then
     zip -r ${OUTDIR}.zip ./${OUTDIR}
     cp ${OUTDIR}.zip ${CWD}/
else
     tar -czvf ${OUTDIR}.tar.gz ./${OUTDIR}
     cp ${OUTDIR}.tar ${CWD}/
fi