On May 17, 2014, at 11:41 AM, Malte Meyn <lilyp...@maltemeyn.de> wrote:
> On 17.05.2014 18:20, Tim McNamara wrote: >> >> On May 16, 2014, at 1:54 PM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote: >> >>> Tim McNamara <tim...@bitstream.net> writes: >>> >>>> Is there a syntax for running convert-ly on a directory without having >>>> to cd into the directory and invoking >>>> >>>> convert-ly -e *.ly >>>> >>>> There doesn’t seem to be a recursive option. Since I’ve got .ly files >>>> in 158 different directories it’d be really nice to be able to batch >>>> update them with something like: >>>> >>>> convert-ly -e -r *.ly >>>> >>>> instead of having to cd in to 158 directories by hand. Maybe there is >>>> good reason for convert-ly not having this capability. >>> >>> find -name "*.ly" -exec convert-ly -e {} \; >>> >>> is how one would likely do it under POSIXy systems. >> >> Thanks, although when I run this I get: >> >> find: illegal option -- n >> usage: find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] [-f path] path ... [expression] >> find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] -f path [path ...] [expression] >> >> >> This is on a Mac using bash as the shell. > > Have you already tried the simpler version I posted yesterday? I wrote > something like “for Linux” but if you have a bash on a Mac (I didn’t know > there was something like that ;)) it should work for you, too. That one worked where David’s didn’t. I don’t understand shell scripting adequately to understand the difference. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user