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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <!-- Created by GNU Texinfo 6.8, https://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/ --> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <!-- This manual is for GNU Texinfo (version 6.8, 8 June 2021), a documentation system that can produce both online information and a printed manual from a single source using semantic markup. Copyright (C) 1988, 1990-1993, 1995-1999, 2001-2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License". --> <title>Batch Formatting (GNU Texinfo 6.8)</title> <meta name="description" content="Batch Formatting (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="keywords" content="Batch Formatting (GNU Texinfo 6.8)"> <meta name="resource-type" content="document"> <meta name="distribution" content="global"> <meta name="Generator" content="texi2any"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1"> <link href="index.html" rel="start" title="Top"> <link href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" rel="index" title="Command and Variable Index"> <link href="index.html#SEC_Contents" rel="contents" title="Table of Contents"> <link href="Creating-an-Info-File.html" rel="up" title="Creating an Info File"> <link href="Tag-and-Split-Files.html" rel="next" title="Tag and Split Files"> <link href="texinfo_002dformat-commands.html" rel="prev" title="texinfo-format commands"> <style type="text/css"> <!-- a.copiable-anchor {visibility: hidden; text-decoration: none; line-height: 0em} a.summary-letter {text-decoration: none} blockquote.indentedblock {margin-right: 0em} div.display {margin-left: 3.2em} div.example {margin-left: 3.2em} kbd {font-style: oblique} pre.display {font-family: inherit} pre.format {font-family: inherit} pre.menu-comment {font-family: serif} pre.menu-preformatted {font-family: serif} span.nolinebreak {white-space: nowrap} span.roman {font-family: initial; font-weight: normal} span.sansserif {font-family: sans-serif; font-weight: normal} span:hover a.copiable-anchor {visibility: visible} ul.no-bullet {list-style: none} --> </style> </head> <body lang="en"> <div class="subsection" id="Batch-Formatting"> <div class="header"> <p> Next: <a href="Tag-and-Split-Files.html" accesskey="n" rel="next">Tag Files and Split Files</a>, Previous: <a href="texinfo_002dformat-commands.html" accesskey="p" rel="prev">The <code>texinfo-format…</code> Commands</a>, Up: <a href="Creating-an-Info-File.html" accesskey="u" rel="up">Creating an Info File</a> [<a href="index.html#SEC_Contents" title="Table of contents" rel="contents">Contents</a>][<a href="Command-and-Variable-Index.html" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p> </div> <hr> <span id="Batch-Formatting-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">20.1.4 Batch Formatting</h4> <span id="index-Batch-formatting-for-Info"></span> <span id="index-Info-batch-formatting"></span> <p>You can format Texinfo files for Info using <code>batch-texinfo-format</code> and Emacs batch mode. You can run Emacs in batch mode from any shell, including a shell inside of Emacs. (See <a data-manual="emacs" href="../emacs/Initial-Options.html#Initial-Options">Initial Options</a> in <cite>The GNU Emacs Manual</cite>.) </p> <p>Here is a shell command to format all the files that end in <samp>.texinfo</samp> in the current directory: </p> <div class="example"> <pre class="example">emacs -batch -funcall batch-texinfo-format *.texinfo </pre></div> <p>Emacs processes all the files listed on the command line, even if an error occurs while attempting to format some of them. </p> <p>Run <code>batch-texinfo-format</code> only with Emacs in batch mode as shown; it is not interactive. It kills the batch mode Emacs on completion. </p> <p><code>batch-texinfo-format</code> is convenient if you lack <code>makeinfo</code> and want to format several Texinfo files at once. When you use Batch mode, you create a new Emacs process. This frees your current Emacs, so you can continue working in it. (When you run <code>texinfo-format-region</code> or <code>texinfo-format-buffer</code>, you cannot use that Emacs for anything else until the command finishes.) </p> </div> </body> </html>