├── README.md
└── arxiv.sh


/README.md:
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 1 | # arxiv_script
 2 | A single script to facilitate submitting papers to ArXiv.org
 3 | With questions (and improvements), please email me@emilianodc.com
 4 | 
 5 | 
 6 | # How to use
 7 | Please read the comments, the script is pretty self-explanatory.
 8 | 
 9 | 
10 | # Input
11 | At the moment, the script takes in input:
12 | $main:   your main source file
13 | $bib:    your bib file
14 | fig_f:   the folder with all your figures
15 | 
16 | # Ouput
17 | upload:  tex file without comments
18 | archive: tar file you can upload with (hopefully) all files you need
19 | 


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/arxiv.sh:
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 1 | #!/bin/bash
 2 | 
 3 | ##### INPUT #####
 4 | ##Modify this accordingly
 5 | main="main"  #main source file
 6 | bib="bibliography" #bib file 
 7 | fig_f="plots/" #folder with figures
 8 | 
 9 | ##### OUTPUT #####
10 | ##Modify this with your preferred file names
11 | upload="no_comments" #tex file without comments
12 | archive="all.tar" #compress files so you can upload a single tar
13 | 
14 | ##### FLAGS #####
15 | #Set this to 1 if you want to upload only figures used in the tex
16 | select_figures=0
17 | 
18 | if [ ! -f $main.tex ]; then
19 |     echo $main.tex "not found!"
20 |     exit 0
21 | fi
22 | if [ ! -f $bib.bib ]; then
23 |     echo $bib.bib "not found!"
24 |     exit 0
25 | fi
26 | if [ ! -d $fig_f ]; then
27 |     echo "Folder" $fig_f "not found!"
28 |     exit 0
29 | fi
30 | 
31 | #Delete previous files
32 | rm -rf $archive $upload
33 | 
34 | #Removing all comments from the source
35 | perl -pe 's/(^|[^\\])%.*/\1%/' < $main.tex > $upload.tex
36 | 
37 | ##Compiling source and bibliography
38 | pdflatex $upload.tex
39 | bibtex $upload
40 | 
41 | #Switch from using the bibfile to including a bbl as requested by ArXiv
42 | s='\\bibliography{'$bib'}'
43 | r='%'$s'\n\\input{'$upload.bbl'}'
44 | #echo $s
45 | #echo $r
46 | perl -pi -e "s/$s/$r/g" $upload.tex
47 | 
48 | if [ $select_figures -eq "1" ]; then
49 | 	echo "here"
50 | 	s='\\begin{document}'
51 | 	r='\\listfiles\n'$s
52 | 	perl -pi -e "s/$s/$r/g" $upload.tex
53 | 	pdflatex $upload.tex
54 | 	r='\\begin{document}'
55 | 	s='\\listfiles\n'$r
56 | 	perl -pi -e "s/$s/$r/g" $upload.tex	
57 | 	awk '/\*File List*/{flag=1;next}/ \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*/{flag=0}flag' $upload.log | grep $fig_f > __figures.txt
58 | 	#cat __figures.txt
59 | 	tar -czf _figures_bk.tar $fig_f 
60 | 	tar -cf __selectfigs.tar -T __figures.txt
61 | 	rm -rf $fig_f
62 | 	tar -xf __selectfigs.tar
63 | 	rm -rf __selectfigs.tar __figures.txt
64 | fi
65 | 
66 | 
67 | ##Remove Copyright
68 | perl -pi -e 's/\\begin{document}/\\makeatletter\n\\def\\\@copyrightspace{\\relax}\n\\makeatother\n\\begin{document} /g' $upload
69 | 
70 | ##Final compilation
71 | pdflatex $upload.tex
72 | pdflatex $upload.tex
73 | 
74 | ##Creating an archive with (hopefully) all files
75 | rm -rf $archive
76 | tar -czf $archive $upload.tex $upload.bbl $fig_f *.cls
77 | 
78 | ##Cleaning up
79 | rm -f *~
80 | rm -f *.log
81 | rm -f *.blg
82 | rm -f $main.bbl
83 | rm -f *.aux
84 | rm -f *.lof
85 | rm -f *.toc
86 | rm -f *.loa
87 | rm -f *.lot
88 | rm -f *.lot
89 | rm -f *.out
90 | rm -f *.ps
91 | rm -f *.dvi
92 | rm -f *.dep
93 | rm -f *.synctex.gz
94 | 
95 | 


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