General ⇒ Running pdflatex into a bash script

[eswap0]

Hi,
I am using pdflatex to generate reports from txt files, but have some doubts I can not solve by myself using the man page.

1. Rerun pdflatex
   Quite often you need to rerun pdflatex, to achieve the desired result. Now, I simply do:

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   --bash code here---
   pdflatex file.tex
   pdflatex file.tex
   --more bash code here--

   But I am afraid this is not the right way to do it. Is there any better way to tell pdflatex to compile twice?
2. Stop on errors
   While running pdflatex manually, quite often you are prompted to do something when errors occur. How to tell pdflatex to just stop and avoid being waiting for a response? I tried -halt-on-error without fortune
3. Errors file
   I don't understand from the man page how to create an error file to debug the tex file...I have tried -file-line-error and -interaction errorstopmode without success.
   Thanks a lot!

[shadgrind]

Run pdflatex in your bash script like this:

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pdflatex -interaction batchmode file.tex

You can see any errors in the file.log file.

[eswap0]

Sorry for my late reply: thanks!