A few scripts for dealing with LaTeX documents

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texit

A shell script for LaTeXing a document and converting to .pdf: texit.
Download it, call it "texit", and make it executable (chmod a+x texit). Run it as follows (if your document is called mydocument.tex):
$ texit mydocument

bibit

A shell script for bibtexing a document, converting to .pdf, and viewing it if you want: bibit.
Run with one argument to view the result (with Acrobat reader -- on a Mac, replace that line with "open $1").
Run with two arguments (the second can be anything) to avoid launching the .pdf viewer:
$ bibit mydocument
or
$ bibit mydocument blah

mergebib.py

A Python utility for merging bibtex files together while keeping only unique entries, and maintaining alphabetical order: mergebib.py.
Download it, call it "mergebib.py", and make it executable (chmod a+x mergebib.py). Run it as follows:
$ mergebib.py bib1.bib bib2.bib bib3.bib ... > newbib.bib