Re: convert-ly question

[Malte Meyn]

Under Linux try:

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

Or, shorter, but doesn’t work by default with all shells (for example 
bash needs “shopt -s globstar” in the .bashrc):

convert-ly -e **/*.ly

On 16.05.2014 20:32, Tim McNamara wrote:
> 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.
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