[Tex/LaTex] Clean-up temporary files after PDF is generated

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Deleting external/auxiliary files?

Is anyone aware of a way of how to cleanup temporary files generated by pdflatex during the generation of the PDF file? I came across the pdflatex parameter -aux-directory= but I cannot find where to set it. I also came across some sort of macro called LaTeX-clean-intermediate-suffixes, but neither am I sure how I can execute it manually or even better automatically after the compilation.

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I don't think this is possible with pdflatex but it is with latexmk by using the option -c as in

latexmk -c foo.tex

See Prevent pdflatex from writing a bunch of files for details.

Why use latemk instead of pdflatex? Because it makes compilation easier. You just have to issue latexmk once and it runs pdflatex, bibtex or biber and makeindex as many times as it takes for the document to be fully compiled. It has several other features you might like too.

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[Tex/LaTex] ‘Bundle’ TeX output in a directory

You can specify different directories for auxiliary files and output files.

  -aux-directory=DIR              Use DIR as the directory to write auxiliary
                                  files to.
  -output-directory=DIR           Use DIR as the directory to write output
                                  files to.

These are MikTeX option names. They might be called something differently in your TeX distribution.

Alternatively, define a :clean target in your Makefile.

[Tex/LaTex] set Vim w/ vim-latexsuite to clean up aux files after compile

hmmmm. Are you sure you want to do this? You need .aux files for subsequent compiles and sometime you need to compile three times until everything is worked out properly (like with note connections, I think). It might be better to set up your editor so that it cleans up when you close the file, or close the editor, or something like that.....cleaning up after every compile smells like trouble to me. Not that I know how to do that...but I'm just sayin'.

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