[Tex/LaTex] Handling LaTeX errors

Question

I have bash script that generates several tex files when it is run and then uses latex and dvipdfm to generate a pdf file. The only problem I have is that when something fails latex will halt the process and ask for input on the errors. In this case I am generating more than one pdf and latex is called several times for each one. So I end up with the same errors several times and I have to mash through it.

Since this is being integrated into the build process for something else I would like to find a way to just let the script die with just a single message.

To recap I would like to have latex terminate when there is an error so that when people other than my self run this they are stuck trying to kill this script.

Answer 1

Call latex with the -halt-on-error option and the -interaction=nonstopmode option:

 latex -halt-on-error -interaction=nonstopmode file.tex