Re: Lilypond & Ubuntu Help

[Patrick Horgan]

Jonathan Kulp wrote:
> Ah.  It never occurred to me to try to allow for anything but the 
> standard "lilypond filename.ly" command.  That's a good idea.  I don't 
> use anything but the standard command very often, though, so I won't 
> lose any sleep over it.  I *was* prepared to lose sleep over the fact 
> that the output files weren't ending up in the right directory ;-) 
> Glad to have figured that one out.
Instead of basename you could use the built in string manipulation stuff 
this:

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

# removes the extension from source filename
FILENOEXTENSION=${srcfile%.*}

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

It does the same thing as basename, but more generally.  In particular 
is says to strip off of the end of a string a pattern.  In this case our 
pattern is simple, just a period followed by anything.

Patrick