Re: [O] Handling errors in command line exporting of agenda?

[suvayu ali]

Hi John,

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 8:53 PM, John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:
>> If you can use wildcards to specify your files, it might be possible by
>> just one extra call to --eval. Something like this might work:
>>
>> emacs --batch -l ~/.emacs --eval '(find-file-read-only "<wildcard>" t)' \
>>      --eval '(org-batch-agenda "w")' > ~/org/aux/agenda-export.txt
>>
>
> Hmm. That might work. Everything I pull from is in ~/org... could the
> wildcard simply be "~/*.org"? Forgive my emacs wildcard ignorance.

As far as I know, emacs accepts any wildcard that is valid in the shell.
Since all your files are in ~/org, I would say try "~/org/*.org". The
'~/org/' limits it to files within your org directory and the '*.org'[1]
limits it to all files with a .org extension.

I hope this helps. :)

Footnotes:

[1] The asterisk (*) stands for zero or more characters. You can find
    more details in `man bash` under the heading "Pattern Matching".

-- 
Suvayu

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