Re: command line lilypond, midi to stdout

[Graham Percival]

Bob Harris wrote:
> I was hoping to combine lilypond with this on the command
> line like this:
>    cat mysong.ly | lilypond - | velchanger | mysong.midi
>
> Anybody have any ideas how I can accomplish that in a single
> command?  My cycle is
> edit,convert-to-midi,listen-in-garage-band, and I'm trying
> to get it down to as few steps as possible to go from the
> edit to hearing it

Write a shell script:

----- songtomidi.sh
#!/bin/sh
FILE="$(basename -s ly $1 )"

lilypond ${FILE}.ly
velchanger ${FILE}.midi
... etc

(untested, but you get the idea)


Cheers,
- Graham