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Here is an example of using Emacs with arguments and options. It assumes you have a Lisp program file called hack-c.el which, when loaded, performs some useful operation on the current buffer, expected to be a C program.
emacs --batch foo.c -l hack-c -f save-buffer >& log
This says to visit foo.c, load hack-c.el (which makes
changes in the visited file), save foo.c (note that
save-buffer
is the function that C-x C-s is bound to), and
then exit back to the shell (because of ‘--batch’). ‘--batch’
also guarantees there will be no problem redirecting output to
log, because Emacs will not assume that it has a display terminal
to work with.