#!/bin/bash if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then echo "need one arg: name of file" exit fi file=$1 if [ -e $file.tex ] ; then latex $file.tex latex $file.tex dvips -Pcmz -tletter -o $file.ps $file.dvi ps2pdf $file.ps else echo " " echo "Error: file $file.tex does not exist. Quitting." echo " " echo "Usage: doit.com file" echo "where file is the part before .tex" echo "e.g. doit.com prexl" echo " to process prexl.tex" echo " " echo "Try again" exit fi