Re: convert-ly question

[David Kastrup]

Tim McNamara <address@hidden> writes:

> Is there a syntax for running convert-ly on a directory without having
> to cd into the directory and invoking
>
>        convert-ly -e *.ly
>
> There doesn’t seem to be a recursive option.  Since I’ve got .ly files
> in 158 different directories it’d be really nice to be able to batch
> update them with something like:
>
>      convert-ly -e -r *.ly
>
> instead of having to cd in to 158 directories by hand.  Maybe there is
> good reason for convert-ly not having this capability.

find -name "*.ly" -exec convert-ly -e {} \;

is how one would likely do it under POSIXy systems.

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David Kastrup