collclean

Usage

Consider a valid LaTeX file paper.tex, where several parts are marked by collaborators using \alice and \bob:

tex Lorem ipsum \alice{dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua.} At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. \[ A = \min \{ B, \bob{C \} } \] % \alice{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Stet clita kasd gubergren, \alice{no} sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem {ipsum dolor sit amet.}

To remove these commands and the corresponding brackets, run

bash collclean paper.tex alice bob

The file paper.tex will then look like this:

tex Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. \[ A = \min \{ B, C \} \] % \alice{Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam erat, sed diam voluptua. At vero eos et accusam et justo duo dolores et ea rebum. Stet clita kasd gubergren, no sea takimata sanctus est Lorem {ipsum dolor sit amet.}

Further notes:

• The command definitions (e.g. via \newcommand) will not get removed.
• Commented lines are ignored.
• If the original file should stay unchanged, use the option -o output.tex to write the cleaned content to the file output.tex.

Installation:

After installing Rust, install collclean via cargo:

bash cargo install collclean