On Sat, Jul 21, 2012 at 9:31 AM, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:

> Ralph Palmer <palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Greetings -
> >
> >
> > I'm moving to a new computer, and, in the process, I'm moving from ly
> > 2.14.1 to 2.14.2.2. I'm running Ubuntu 12.04.
> >
> > How do I update my .ily files? Convert-ly will take care of .ly, but
> > will it also update .ily files?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Also, I have a lot (for me) of .ly files in a complex (again, for me)
> > file structure. Does anyone have a bash script that will run
> > convert-ly against files in multiple directories, or at least
> > penetrating to lower directories in the hierarchy?
>
> scripts/auxiliar/update-with-convert-ly.sh contains the following:
>
> ### update .ly files
> # don't look in . otherwise it'll find stuff in build/ !
> find Documentation/ input/ ly/ -name out -prune -o -name 'out-*' -prune \
>   -o \( -name '*.ly' -o -name '*.ily' \) -print \
>   | xargs $BUILD_DIR/out/bin/convert-ly -e -d
>
> which should be reasonably easy to adapt to your own directory
> structure.  You'll like be able to omit the -name ... -prune -o
> arguments and just use the rest.  Of course, putting a backup in a
> separate directory hierarchy will make excellent sense.
>
> --
> David Kastrup
>

Thanks for the quick and complete reply, David Kastrup.

Cheers,

Ralph

-- 
Ralph Palmer
Brattleboro, VT
USA
palmer.r.vio...@gmail.com
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