Re: Running emacs lisp programs from command line or script

[Tim Heaney]

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. Or make your Emacs Lisp file executable and try
the sesquicolon

  http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2002-08/msg00229.html

I hope this helps,

Tim