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<span id="Batch-Formatting-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">21.1.4 Batch Formatting</h4>
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<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 href="../emacs/Initial-Options.html#Initial-Options">Initial Options</a> in <cite>The GNU Emacs Manual</cite>.)
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<p>Here is a shell command to format all the files that end in
<samp>.texinfo</samp> in the current directory:
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<pre class="example">emacs -batch -funcall batch-texinfo-format *.texinfo
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<p>Emacs processes all the files listed on the command line, even if an
error occurs while attempting to format some of them.
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<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.
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<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.)
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