probably lilypond isn't writing to stdout. maybe stderr? On Jun 20, 2012 9:20 AM, "James Harkins" <jamshar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I just encountered something curious while trying to get a list of fonts > on my machine from lilypond. According to the documentation of font > selection: > > lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x > > This does indeed list of fonts, but the terminal doesn't keep enough lines > to see the entire list. So I thought, the UNIX command line stdout redirect > should help: > > lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x > >/home/dlm/Documents/ly/show-available-fonts.txt > > But the output was not redirected. It still went to the terminal window > and the new file is empty. > > Same result piping the output to cat: > > lilypond -dshow-available-fonts x | cat > >/home/dlm/Documents/ly/show-available-fonts.txt > > Is there a reason why I can't use the usual UNIXy tricks to capture stdout > here? > > hjh > > > -- > James Harkins /// dewdrop world > jamshar...@dewdrop-world.net > http://www.dewdrop-world.net > > "Come said the Muse, > Sing me a song no poet has yet chanted, > Sing me the universal." -- Whitman > > blog: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/words > audio clips: http://www.dewdrop-world.net/audio > more audio: http://soundcloud.com/dewdrop_world/tracks > > _______________________________________________ > lilypond-user mailing list > lilypond-user@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/lilypond-user >
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