Re: Preferred way of invoking lilypond from the commandline under OS X?

[Benjamin Esham]

 Graham Percival wrote:

> Trevor Bača wrote:
>
> > Graham, I know the manual is feature-ready and in a wait state for
> > final release. If it's easy to add, we might insert into 13.2
> > something like "To invoke LilyPond from the commandline under OS X,
> > run path/to/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/lilypond. The same is
> > true of the other scripts in the /bin directory, including
> > lilypond-book, convert-ly, abc2ly, etc."
>
> Sure!  Fixes like this are always welcome.  I'm not going to add a  
> new chapter or completely rewrite an existing one, but small  
> changes to text like this are completely ok.  Please send more!  :)

OK then :-)

A much easier way to invoke Lilypond under OS X is just to add the  
relevant directory to your $PATH.  So, for csh and tcsh, add this to  
your .cshrc:

    setenv PATH /Applications/Lilypond.app/Resources/bin:{$PATH}

Obviously, replacing the path to Lilypond.app if necessary.

I'm not sure what the syntax would be for bash and other shells; can  
anyone help with that?  In any event, Graham—I think we should add  
this to the appropriate section of the manual.

Cheers,
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