buildPDF

#!/bin/bash
# A script for automatically creating PDf files from a latex document
# You can set the number of builds
# Usage: ./buildpdf.sh filename [build amount] PDFLATEX_ARGS
# Marcel Michael Kapfer, Elias Toivanen
# 6th January 2015
# GNU GPL v3.0 -> Feel free to re-distribute it or fork it
if [[ -z "$1" ]]; then
    echo "Usage: $(basename $0) filename [-n build amount (Default: 1)] [PDFLATEX_ARGS]"
    exit 1
fi

if ! which inotifywait > /dev/null; then
    echo "ERROR: inotifywait not found in path. Is inotify-tools installed?" >&2
    exit 1
fi

filename=$1
if [[ ! -r "$filename" ]]; then
    echo "ERROR: The input file \`$filename' name is not readable.">&2
    exit 1
fi

shift

builds=1
if [[ "$1" == "-n" ]]; then
    shift
    builds=$1
    shift
fi

args=""
if (( $# )); then
    args="$@"
fi

while inotifywait --event modify $filename; do
    for ((i=1 ; i<=$builds ; ++i)); do
        pdflatex "$args" "$filename"
        echo "Build $i ready"
    done
done