Delete helper files created by running pdflatex. I hate having all that clutter in my directories after I'm done building a document or beamer presentation. Retains pdf, sty, tex, and bib files.

texcleanup.py

#!/usr/bin/python

import os

# This script deletes the garbage files generated when compiling a
# latex document.  Run it from the directory you would like cleaned
# up.  Source documents (those ending with *.tex, *.bib, and *.sty)
# and outputs (e.g. postscript and pdf files) are not affected.

filelist = os.listdir(os.getcwd())

keys = [x[0:-4] for x in filelist if '.tex' in x]

trash_suffixes = '.aux .log .nav .bbl .out .toc .snm .rel .blg .vrb .synctex.gz'.split(' ')

things_to_delete = []
for key in keys:
    things_to_delete.extend([key+x for x in trash_suffixes])

print 'The following files will be deleted:'
for item in things_to_delete:
    if os.path.isfile(item):
        print item

okay = raw_input('Is it okay to delete all of these files? (y/n) ') in 'yY'

if okay:
    for filename in things_to_delete:
        try:
            os.remove(filename)
            print filename + ' deleted.'
        except:
            pass
else:
    print 'No files deleted.'