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Since there is parameter I need to use, so I will not use single quote as the question's answer

First, I try 

emacsclient -q --eval (progn (find-file "ORG/${UN}.org") (org-latex-export-to-pdf))

zsh: bad pattern: (progn (find-file ORG/Austin.org) (org-latex-export-to-pdf))

Then,

emacsclient -q --eval "(progn (find-file "ORG/${UN}.org") (org-latex-export-to-pdf))"

I get the error again

ERROR: Symbol’s value as variable is void: ORG/Austin\.org

The question is how to give the parameters.

Update

I still get error after backslash the period

emacsclient -q --eval "(progn (find-file "ORG/${UN}\.org") (org-latex-export-to-pdf))"

ERROR: Symbol’s value as variable is void: ORG/Austin\.org

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    This is a zsh question and nothing to do with org-mode, org-export etc. . Have you tried to backslash the inner apostrophs ? – politza Oct 29 '16 at 21:57
  • @politza Still get error after backslash the period `emacsclient -q --eval "(progn (find-file "ORG/${UN}\.org") (org-latex-export-to-pdf))"` `*ERROR*: Symbol’s value as variable is void: ORG/Austin\.org` – yuxuan Oct 29 '16 at 22:24
  • `...(find-file \"ORG/${UN}\.org\")...` – politza Oct 30 '16 at 01:37

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Use either

emacsclient -q --eval "(progn (find-file \"ORG/${UN}.org\") (org-latex-export-to-pdf))"

or

emacsclient -q --eval '(progn (find-file "ORG/'"${UN}"'.org") (org-latex-export-to-pdf))'

The problem that needs to be solved is to give the string "ORG/Austin.org" rather than the symbol ORG/Austin.org to emacs.

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  • What should I do to only open the file instead of piping it into pdf? – alper May 10 '20 at 11:49
  • @alper Can you expand your question - I don't understand what you are asking? The emacs lisp code is a `progn` which says "do a sequence of things". Inside that the sequence is `find-file` to open the file and `org-latex-export-to=pdf`. If all you want is to open the file then remove the `(org-latex-export-to-pdf)` but this seems overkill! Perhaps you should start a new question? – icarus May 10 '20 at 14:40
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emacs --batch foo.org -f org-latex-export-to-pdf
  • --batch: Run Emacs in batch mode
  • foo.org: Open foo.org and set it as current buffer (org.el is loaded by the way)
  • -f org-latex-export-to-pdf: Then call org-latex-export-to-pdf to export the current buffer to pdf

As your tries

emacsclient -q --eval (progn (find-file "ORG/${UN}.org") (org-latex-export-to-pdf))

you need quote your expression for shell since it contains white spaces.

emacsclient -q --eval "(progn (find-file "ORG/${UN}.org") (org-latex-export-to-pdf))"

you need escape the inner " because you are using " outside. You can refer to @icarus's answer, I think it's correct. However, instead of writing Lisp in your shell, you can just make a function in Emacs and call it using emacsclient from command line, for example,

(defun my-org-latex-export-to-pdf ()
  ...)

$ emacsclient --eval '(my-org-latex-export-to-pdf)'

In Emacs Lisp, you can use getenv to access value of environment variable if you need to.

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Use eval solve this question.

 eval "emacsclient -q --eval '(progn (find-file \"ORG/$UN.org\") (org-latex-export-to-pdf))'"
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  • eval is a very useful and powerful feature of the shell, but is almost certainly the wrong tool for this. You just need to get the quotes correct, – icarus Oct 30 '16 at 01:59