On Tuesday, 8 August 2017 17.24.30 WEST Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote:
> José
>
> thank you, but it lyx2lyx does not do what I need.
>
> lyx2lyx file.lyx -o file.lyx
>
> clobbers file.lyx
>
> Something like
>
> PID=$$
> cp file.lyx file.$PID.lyx
> lyx2lyx file.$PID.lyx file.lyx
>
> doesn't fit on the command line so needs refinement as a bash script to
> take arguments and do further error checking...
>
> not what would call 'one the command line'
>
>
> el
Using bash in one line we have (backup file.lyx -> file.old.lyx):
for lfile in $(find . -name '*lyx' -print); do ofile=${lfile%%.lyx}.old.lyx;
lyx2lyx < $ofile -o $lfile;
done
:-)
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José Abílio
