On 14 November 2014 14:11, Ed Gordijn <ed.klari...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Urs,
>
> I'm not sure I do agree with your statement:
>
>> You can surely do what you want with a pure shell script, but Python may
>> be cleaner to read
>
> The 'pure shell' script looks like this:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> shopt -s globstar # to be able to use ** for sub-dirs
>
> for lyFile in **/*.ly
> do
> out="${lyFile%.ly}" # filename without .ly
> lilypond -o"$out" "$lyFile"
> done
Or even shorter, if slightly more arcane:
find . -name '*ly' -exec sh -c 'ly={}; lilypond -o "${ly%.ly}" "$ly"' \;
By the way, thanks for the ${$varname%ending} trick, I didn't know it;
I used to employ $(basename $varname ending) to achieve the same
effect but your way is a lot shorter. ;)
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