Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote: > >> There already is an example in the manual showing the use of *. >> I think that is probably sufficient. > Yes, but it uses a for ... in ... do syntax that only works in BASH, > there is a similar syntax in batch processing for windows: for %x in (*.ly) DO convert-ly -e %x and you could use the option for /R … to include subfolders!
> whereas > convert-ly -e *.ly > works in all OS:s that I know of. > The main reason to include the more complicated version in the manual is > that convert-ly -e *.ly may fail in situations where you have a large > number of files in the same directory, since then the expanded command > line may get too long. However, this is such a rare case > i just (successfully) run convert-ly -e *.ly in a folder with more than 100'000 .ly files… - probably the ram (i had 4GB) determines how many files can be processed! altogether i would suggest to simply recommend convert-ly -e *.ly in the docs -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Header-title-problem-or-convert-ly-problem-tp24210674p24246527.html Sent from the Gnu - Lilypond - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ lilypond-user mailing list lilypond-user@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user
