Re: Lilypond & Ubuntu Help

[Jonathan Kulp]

Ok I've come up with a completely different script that does what I 
*thought* the original one was supposed to do.  Searching around I found 
a couple of commands that make the entire thing simpler and easier for 
me to understand.  I don't really understand how to use sed and only 
used it b/c I grabbed a snippet of code from an unrelated script.  I've 
run this one from many different directories on many different files and 
it has worked perfectly each time.  I'm glad this thread started b/c it 
taught me that I'm not as smart as I thought I was, but also 
demonstrates the amazing flexibility of unix-like scripts--there's more 
than one way to do stuff.  (The fact that my script and Jay's below 
essentially do the same thing is astonishing to me. Jay's looks so much 
more impressive!)  OK here's the script, which I save as "lily" in my 
~/bin directory and run as "lily filename.ly"

#!/bin/bash

#************************************************************#
# This script runs lilypond on a specified file, keeping all #
# output files in the same directory as the source file      #
#************************************************************#

# determines the source filename
srcfile="`basename $1`"

# removes the extension from source filename
FILENOEXTENSION="`basename $1 .ly`"

# determines directory
OUTDIR="`dirname $1`"

# closes current Acrobat Reader window
wmctrl -c "Adobe Reader"

# changes to correct directory
cd $OUTDIR

# runs lilypond on file
lilypond  $srcfile

# opens pdf and returns to command prompt
acroread $FILENOEXTENSION.pdf &

#***********END OF SCRIPT**************

Best,

Jonathan

Jay Anderson wrote:
> Jonathan Kulp <jonlancekulp <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > Well, my face is red.  Just tried my script from a different directory 
> > and it doesn't put the output in the right place.  I guess I've always 
> > just cd'd to the right dir before running the script.  Sorry about that! 
> >   I'll see if I can make it work right.  Just have to figure out how to 
> > capture the path of the first argument.  I'm new at scripting so this 
> > could take a while :)
>
> The script below doesn't open up a pdf viewer (that can be added from your
> script), but it does make sure all the output is in the same directory as the
> source file.
>
> -----Jay
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> #last argument
> for LY; do :; done
>
> #All but last argument
> ARGS=`echo $@ | sed -e 's_^\s*\(\(\S\S*\s\s*\)*\)\S\S*\s*$_\1_'`
>
> #Run lilypond from the directory where the file lives
> cd `dirname $LY`
> CMD="lilypond $ARGS $(basename $LY)"
> echo $CMD
> eval $CMD
>
>
>
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Jonathan Kulp
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