Re: Emacs, Org Mode, and Exporting to The Command Line Troubles

[Erik Iverson <eriki@ccbr.umn.edu>]

Colin,

If you don't receive an answer here, you might want to follow-up on
the emacs-orgmode mailing list.  You may have to load orgmode in your
progn before using its functions?

--Erik

Colin Grey wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to write a shell script that will automatically change a 
> bunch of my org-mode files into HTML files.  But am running into some 
> problems.  The structure, as best I understand it, should like something 
> like this:
> 
> emacs -batch -eval '(progn (find-file "test.org.txt") 
> (org-export-as-html "test.html"))'
> 
> However, when I run that, it gives the output:
> 
> Loading 00fink-vars...
> Exporting...
> Exporting...
> Exporting...
> Wrong type argument: stringp, nil
> 
> 
> Oddly, I've noticed that if I don't use my custom extension (.org.txt) 
> but just use .org like so:
> 
> emacs -batch -eval '(progn (find-file "test.org <http://test.org>") 
> (org-export-as-html "test.html"))'
> 
> It will run, but will always spit out a blank HTML file, no matter the 
> contents of test.org <http://test.org>
> 
> Thank you in advance for any help,
> 
> Colin Grey
> 
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