Emacs Org-mode – Export to another directory

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I know this is kind of minor, but it's been bugging me. I'm using Org-mode for a project and I tend to export to either PDF or HTML rather frequently and it leaves my directory littered with PDF, Tex, and HTML files. Is there a way to have Org-mode export to another location, perhaps a subdirectory called ./exports?

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In addition to the use of publishing by modifying your org-publish-project-alist variable as @user1248256 suggested, you can directly specify the org-export-publishing-directory variable within your file:

#+bind: org-export-publishing-directory "./exports"

* This is a test headline
Some text here.  This should be exported to the "./exports" directory.

Upon export it will be placed in the "exports" directory, but only if that directory exists. If it does not exist, you will get an error message in the console.

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Add the following somewhere in your Emacs initialization file (taken from https://gist.github.com/bradleywright/2046593)

(defun set-exec-path-from-shell-PATH ()
  "Sets the exec-path to the same value used by the user shell"
  (let ((path-from-shell
         (replace-regexp-in-string
          "[[:space:]\n]*$" ""
          (shell-command-to-string "$SHELL -l -c 'echo $PATH'"))))
    (setenv "PATH" path-from-shell)
    (setq exec-path (split-string path-from-shell path-separator))))

(set-exec-path-from-shell-PATH)

The link above explains why you must configure the path like that, I was having same issue than you, adding this I'm able to export to pdf with org mode in Mac OS X Mavericks, without it , I receive the same error message.

Update

Someone has already write a package for Emacs that resolve this: https://github.com/purcell/exec-path-from-shell

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