keeferrourke · May 28, 2018 04:03 · May 28, 2018 · May 28, 2018
diff --git a/latexcompile b/latexcompile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 # the CC0 legalcode.
 
 if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
-    echo "usage: latexcompile FILE.tex"
+    echo "usage: latexcompile FILE.tex [--open]"
     echo "cleanly compile LaTeX documents to PDF without cluttering the" \
 	  working directory."
     exit 2

diff --git a/latexcompile b/latexcompile
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+#
+# latexcompile
+# Keefer Rourke <[email protected]>
+#
+# To the extent possible under law, the person who associated CC0 with
+# latexcompile has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights
+# to latexcompile.
+#
+# See <http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/> for a copy of
+# the CC0 legalcode.
+
+if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "usage: latexcompile FILE.tex"
+    echo "cleanly compile LaTeX documents to PDF without cluttering the" \
+	  working directory."
+    exit 2
+fi
+
+BASE="${1%.*}"
+
+pdflatex $1 2>/dev/null 1>&2
+
+if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
+    echo "Compilation error. Check log."
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+rm "$BASE.log" "$BASE.aux" "$BASE.out"
+
+if [ $2 == "--open" ] || [ $2 == "-o" ]; then
+    xdg-open "$BASE.pdf"
+fi
+exit 0