Latex .aux file

AGoheer AGoheer 61 1 1 silver badge 1 1 bronze badge. Great idea! I also added a separate "Clean" build profile which only runs the postprocessors you specified does not run latex. For MikTeX: texify -cp file. Very useful. Boocko Boocko 5 5 silver badges 16 16 bronze badges. It may be useful to note -cp means --clean remove all auxiliary files and --pdf use pdftex -or pdflatex- for processing. Write a shell-script wrapper which removes the files:! JesperE JesperE Why not move all of the log files into a directory named log instead?

There must be some reason that those files get created. This doesn't work. BoZiffer BoZiffer 1 1 bronze badge. Many editors have ways of dealing with this problem, TeXlipse can use tmp directories I know.

Realize though, this quesiton is 2. JoelBerger whoops My apologies. Answering old questions isn't a problem, just thought I would point it out :- — Joel Berger. Use rm for UNIX. Alexey Malistov Alexey Malistov While this is technically correct, I think that having your document execute system commands for this purpose is scary and having the system command remove with wildcards is downright dangerous.

This really is the job for a build script. Sure can be dangerous if a mistake creeps in, but it's an interesting trick. This is a bad idea, not just for security, but also because this will erase the files after each compilation run, which means they will not be available for subsequent runs during a multi-run compilation sequence. Active Oldest Votes.

I have the following entry in. Juan Leni Juan Leni 5, 3 3 gold badges 51 51 silver badges 75 75 bronze badges. Lucas Aimaretto Lucas Aimaretto 1, 16 16 silver badges 31 31 bronze badges. Would it slow down the next time compilcation? Sign up or log in Sign up using Google.

Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Podcast Making Agile work for data science. Stack Gives Back Featured on Meta. You can delete this log file if you like. It will be created again the next time you run LaTeX. This is needed to ensure all your cross-references are up-to-date.

You can delete this file, but you will need at least two LaTeX runs to ensure your cross-references are correct the next time you create your output file. TeXWorks also creates a file with the extension.

This file allows you to jump to and from the source code and the appropriate part of the output file.