Re: update all files with convert.ly (Vol 118, Issue 26)

[Patrick or Cynthia Karl]

> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2012 23:47:31 +0200
> From: Reinhold Kainhofer <address@hidden>
> To: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Subject: Re: update all files with convert.ly

> On 2012-09-04 11:37, David Kastrup wrote:> Stefan Thomas 
> <address@hidden> writes:
>> 
>>> Dear community,
>>> how can I update all my ly files (including subfolders) with one
>>> command?
>> 
>> Depending on operating system, something like
>> 
>> find -name '*.ly' -exec convert-ly -ed {} \;
>> 
>> might do the trick.  Needless to say, create a backup first.
> 
> Plus, if convert-ly is not able to convert a particular feature 
> automatically, it only prints out a warning that you need to fix 
> something manually, but you'll have no indication in which file and 
> where exactly you have to do some manual work….


One way to cope with that, if the OS is sufficiently unix-like, is:

for f in `find . -name \*.ly -print`
do
  echo Converting $f
  convert-ly -ed $f
done

Then any files which had problems could be identified and addressed 
individually.

Pat