latex2pdf

February 22nd, 2004

This is a short little shell script which executes the right commands to generate and display a PDF from a latex file. I, personally, named it 'pdf' and just placed it in my ~/bin/ directory. The code for this can be found below:

#!/bin/sh pdflatex $1 bibtex $1 pdflatex $1 pdflatex $1 rm \"$1.aux\" rm \"$1.bbl\" rm \"$1.blg\" rm \"$1.log\" rm \"$1.toc\" xpdf \"$1.pdf\" &

Tags: cli, shell, latex

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