> 5 bloody files

For those that have to use latex for various reasons, but absolutely hate these files from intermediate compiler passes, here are two aliases from my .bashrc

  latexloop() { latexmk -pdf -pvc -emulate-aux-dir -aux-directory=/tmp/latexcrap "$@"; }

  alias latexmk='latexmk -pdf -emulate-aux-dir -aux-directory=/tmp/latexcrap'

You can now `latexmk file.tex` and it will put all the auxiliary files in /tmp/latexcrap.

The `latexloop file.tex` invocation is just a helper that hot-reloads when you save the tex file.