LaTeX

This page lists the safe and destructive patterns in the LaTeX Build Tools shell guard pack. See Shell Tool for how these patterns are evaluated.

LaTeX Build Tools

Pack ID: latex.build_tools

Guards against destructive LaTeX build tool operations

Rule ID	Pattern
`latex.build_tools.latexmk_version`	`^latexmk\s+--version\b[^\|><]*$`
`latex.build_tools.biber_version`	`^biber\s+--version\b[^\|><]*$`

Rule ID	Reason	Suggestion	Confidence
`latex.build_tools.latexmk_clean`	Removes all generated files including PDFs and auxiliary files	Use `latexmk -c` (lowercase) to clean only auxiliary files, preserving PDFs	Medium
`latex.build_tools.latexmk_clean_all`	Removes all generated files including PDFs, auxiliary files, and extra generated files	Use `latexmk -c` (lowercase) to clean only auxiliary files, preserving PDFs	High