Re: Running emacs lisp programs from command line or script

[Kevin Rodgers]

Tim Heaney wrote:

> Ryan Newton <newton@ai.mit.edu> writes:
>
> > If I want to make a command line invokable script to, say, convert
> > emacs enriched text documents to plain ones, how do I do it?  I want
> > emacs to start up, open said document, save it in plain text mode.
> > Easy to write the emacs lisp code, but how do I call it from the
> > command line.  What's the "batch" mode for emacs?
>
> Batch. You can just run something like
>
>   emacs -batch -l elispfile -f function inputfile
>
> from the command line.


Note that command line action arguments (including files to visit) are
processed in order (see the Command Arguments and Action Arguments nodes
of the Emacs manual), so:

        emacs --batch TEXT_FILE -l ELISP_FILE -f FUNCTION -f save-buffer


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Kevin Rodgers