You may know this, but on the chance you do not ...
Depending on your terminal shell (e.g. I use zsh), you can use the find
command and its -exec option to find all .ly files in a folder hierarchy
and run the command on them.
#> find ./* -type f -iname \*.ly\* -exec [python.ly command here] {} \;
./* causes folder recursion
-type f limits find to files
-iname ignores case
The {} substitutes for the file name.
\; terminates the command executed.
I've used this command syntax quite a bit. There are permutations for using
find that involve piping to xargs without invoking -exec and using -print0
which are sometimes necessary (Google helps here).
Regards
On Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 10:30 AM Knute Snortum <ksnor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a great utility! I like the ability to export syntax
> highlighting to HTML.
>
> For changing a group of files, I would try:
>
> ly --in-place reformat *.ly
>
> This will modify the files in place and give you a backup of the file
> with the filename suffixed with a "~".
>
> --
> Knute Snortum
>
>
> --
> Knute Snortum
>
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:28 PM David Menéndez Hurtado
> <davidmen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 21:59, Fr. Samuel Springuel <
> rpspring...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I’ve developed a large collection of music files over several years
> have recently noticed that there are some stylistic formatting deviations
> in some of them and so I’m looking for a tool that will check all my files
> for these problems (and ideally fix them). I can do this in Frescobaldi
> using Tools->Code Formatting->Format, but I’m looking for a command-line
> option that I can use to fix my files en masse (and eventually incorporate
> into a check-in hook on my git repositories to prevent this from happening
> again). Does anyone have any suggestions for how to pull this off?
> >
> >
> >
> > pip install python-ly
> > ly "reformat" input.ly > output.ly
> >
> > That runs exactly the same that Frescobaldi does. More documentation:
> https://pypi.org/project/python-ly/
> >
> > I found it poking around the Frescobaldi source, found something called
> reformat
> >
> https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/blob/f01cdbe2baee93f3ab361647a42885a1cfab6b40/frescobaldi_app/reformat.py#L46
> >
> > That calls ly.reformat.reformat
> > https://github.com/frescobaldi/python-ly/blob/master/ly/reformat.py#L102
> >
> >
> > /David.
> >
>
>
