Eluze <[email protected]> writes: > carried away by my success in contributing a little patch for convert-ly in > Python and inspired by dak's sentence "numbered backups tend to accumulate" > (sorry I can't remember exactly where that was) I tried a new patch to get > rid of these numerous backups: > > -k --clean-numbered-backup - "clean numbered backups > [filename.ext.~number~]" > > surely it's also not difficult to find these backups with an explorer and an > appropriate regex and to delete them manually. > > for me it was an occasion to learn more about Python and regex. and tbh it > took me much more time than the result would let you think. > > if somebody feels this is usable or useful please add it to convert-ly.
As you said: this is easy to do with shell patterns anyway. Easier to look up a rarely used option, and more flexible (you can do it for one or multiple files). So I'd lean towards not doing anything here. > another (not really related) topic: > > during the discussion about numbered backups I discovered that you can > easily write "convert-ly -beck" whereas I used to write -b -e -c -k - I > don't think I've seen this is mentioned in the AU but it is much easier to > write! convert -ed is frequently mentioned on the list. > so I suggest to add a short note like: > > boolean parameters like e, c, d, b … can be collected after a single "-", > eg. -bec It's usually not just booleans, though some utilities differ how they accumulate options with parameters. So sometimes you can write -xyz paramx paramy paramz but sometimes the interpretation instead leads to -xparamx -yparamy -zparamz > in the end of the chapter *2.3 Command line options for convert-ly* This is usually assumed to be common knowledge, but of course it's "common knowledge" mostly with people accustomed to Unix. -- David Kastrup _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
