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I would like to know if it is possible, with a single command from bash, to open a file with emacs -nwand execute a command in the same time, for example goto-line 20.

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Generic solution

Here's a generic solution to eval some elisp expression after launching emacs

emacs --eval="SEXP"

For your example, that will be

emacs -nw --eval="(goto-line 20)" FILE 

Also check out the --load option from the below referenced link if you want to load an elisp file instead of writing elisp at command line.

Solution specific for opening emacs at a particular position

From the command line, if you want to open a specific FILE and position the cursor at a specific LINE and COL, you would do

emacs +LINE:COL FILE

Of course, as you want to jump to a specific line number in terminal mode, you can do

emacs -nw +LINE FILE

Reference

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  • Thank you for the answer. I need to run also different commands such as elisp script. Is there a general way to to this?
    – falematte
    May 10, 2015 at 13:20
  • Updated my answer with the generic solution as well May 10, 2015 at 13:22
  • The command with goto-line is not working for me (the file is opened with the cursor at the beginning of the file). Am I doing something wrong?
    – falematte
    May 10, 2015 at 13:52
  • The answer to this question seems to be this one stackoverflow.com/questions/18033190/…
    – falematte
    May 10, 2015 at 14:00
  • Was the fix changing the order of --eval and FILE? I am not next to a computer currently. You can correct this solution, or I will when I get next to a computer. May 10, 2015 at 14:26

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