Urs Liska <li...@ursliska.de> writes:

> Please excuse if I post a linux question here, but I'd prefer not to
> have to find a dedicated forum and subscribe there first ...
>
> I have a project with more than two dozens of lilypond scores. For
> several reasons I have them in individual files which I can't \include
> in a master file.
> I would like to write a script that allows me to compile all .ly files
> in one run.
> For this I need the following which I didn't find through Google:
> How can I sequentially cd to all subdirectories that start with a number?
> What I want is to do
>
> cd 01_01_...
> lilypond *.ly
> cd ..
> cd 01_02_...
> ..
>
> in a form like
>
> for dir in [get me all directories starting with a number]
> do
> cd $dir
> lilypond *.ly
> cd ..
> done
>
> This _has_ to be absolutely simple, but I didn't manage do find out
> how so far.

for dir in [0-9]*/
do
  cd $dir
  lilypond *.ly
  cd ..
done

-- 
David Kastrup


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