On Sat, 2014-05-17 at 11:37 -0500, Patrick or Cynthia Karl wrote:

> 
> If you are on a unix machine (Mac, PC with Ubuntu, etc) you could do that by 
> issuing the following command in a terminal window:
> 
>       find . -name \*.ly -print | xargs -n 1 convert-ly -e
> 
> There is also a (possibly free) package for use on Windows machines called 
> Cygwin.  It is possible that the above command would work on a Windows 
> machine with Cygwin in a command window.
> 


If you're going to use xargs, be careful of .ly files containing
whitespace in the filename.  The GNU implementations of find and xargs
support an option for that:

find . -name \*.ly -print0 | xargs -0 -n 1 convert-ly -e
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