Re: using -x and TWO commands

[Tuukka Toivonen]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2001, Joao B. Oliveira wrote:

>  lyx -x "buffer-write" file.lyx
> 
> This loads the file and saves in the new format, 
> but LyX does not quit thereafter. That is, windows

Maybe you could just kill lyx afterwards, in bash it should be something
like sleep 5;kill $! (but read the manpage if it doesn't work).
A bit ugly maybe but should work---but wait long enough that lyx has time
to write the file!