Automatic new directory for new files

Question

I am looking for some way to have a tidy folder system.

My idea is, when I create a new file for latex to automatically create a new folder under the same name inside my working directory and put all files in that folder (.aux, .pdf, .tex, .loc etc). It might be the case that some package does that, but I am relatively new to this.

Do you know any way of achieving something like this?

Answer 1

latex has the -output-directory option. In Linux with the bash shell you can use the shell script

#!/bin/sh
name=`basename $1 .tex`
if [ ! -d "$name" ]; then
    mkdir $name
fi
latex -output-directory $name $1

Save the above code to somewhere in your $PATH called newlatex.sh and remember to chmod it 700. Then from the directory in which you placed the .tex file call

$ newlatex.sh filename.tex

or

$ newlatex.sh filename