Re: command line option that prevents generation of midi?

[Martin Tarenskeen]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2014, Federico Bruni wrote:

> the following command _seems_ to work:
>
> lilypond -e "(set! write-performances-midis (lambda (performances basename .
> rest) 0))" piece.ly 
>
> even if I don't know what it's really doing: it just deletes the midi file?
> or it really avoids the creation of the midi file?


Interesting. This is the kind of syntax I couldn't possibly remember and 
reproduce without searching the mailing list archives or manuals.

I think I'l stick to my bash commandline and do

lilypond piece.ly && rm -f piece.midi

Two commands, and still shorter. Maybe just a little bit slower.

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MT