I have a few tens of .tex files in a directory.
How can I compile them all with a single command from the terminal?
Moreover: is it possible to avoid all the files that are generated by the compiler (.bak, .log, .aux, .out, .bib files)?
I usually compile with pdflatex file.tex.
You can do it with for command
for f in *.tex; do pdflatex $f; done
I find this syntax easier to remember than find.
Regarding deleting auxiliary files consider using latexmk -c -pdf or latexmk -C -pdf instead of pdflatex. latexmk is latex make, which builds only the files that need to be built. I am not sure, which auxiliary files get deleted exactly, but I think most of them will be deleted with -c or -C switch.
for f in *.tex; do latexmk -C -pdf $f; done
According to manual it should also work like this
latexmk -C -pdf *.tex
Another option would be to delete files manually after the processing is done. That would be accomplished like this:
for f in *.tex; do pdflatex $f; done; rm *.bak *.log *.aux *.out *.bib
I am not sure if this still qualifies for a oneliner.
