Re: Identify included files

[Fr. Samuel Springuel]

> On 15 May, 2020, at 5:04 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> "Fr. Samuel Springuel" <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> Before I start writing a script to do this, is there an existing tool
>> which will identify all the `\include` files that a LilyPond file
>> depends on?  Even better, one that will work in a recursive fashion?
> 
> You can use a file like
> 
> ...
> and call it with
> 
> lilypond --init parse-only.ly actual-file-name.ly 2> /dev/null
> 
> and it should be pretty fast.  Of course the file list includes
> parse-only.ly...
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Kastrup

Very nice.  I’ve tested the various options and this seems to be the best 
option.  While I haven’t tested with a really big file, this option appeared to 
be independent of file size while the option I came up with isn’t.

Is there any chance that something like this could be introduced into LilyPond 
core?

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