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Asked: 2026-06-01T17:07:04+00:00

When I’m writing a Latex file, sometimes I need to remove all files which

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When I’m writing a Latex file, sometimes I need to remove all files which were generated by its compilation and keep only the .tex file. Example, I want to remove all the following files:

paper-stack.log
paper-stack.blg
paper-stack.bbl
paper-stack.aux
paper-stack.pdf

and keep the following file:

paper-stack.tex

Besides that, I want to remove using bash regexp. I rememeber I did it before, but now I’m confused about the regexp patterns after using other shells. It was something like rm paper-stack.[!tex], but I’m not sure about the metacharacters [, ] and !.

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  1. Editorial Team

    If you have done shopt extglob then you can say something like

    rm paper-stack.!(tex)

    (As usual when working with rm or other potentially destructive commands, it’s a good idea to test with echo first.) I would be more explicit about what to remove though, just on general principles.

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