Re: musicxml2ly

[Michael Hendry]

> On 19 Mar 2015, at 23:20, Martin Tarenskeen <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, 20 Mar 2015, Noeck wrote:
> 
>> Hi Craig,
>> 
>>> Do I append "for f in *.xml" to the end of my command;
>> 
>> No, you put all your command within the for loop:
>> 
>> for f in *.xml; do
>> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/musicxml2ly  --nd
>> --nrp --npl --no-beaming -m --language=english $f; done
>> 
>> (all this is one line – or written in several lines:)
>> 
>> for f in *.xml
>> do
>> /Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin/musicxml2ly \
>> --nd --nrp --npl --no-beaming -m --language=english $f
>> done
>> 
>> I hope this syntax is the same on a Mac.
> 
> 
> I am not a Mac user. But first thing I thought was: doesn't a Mac have a PATH 
> variable like Linux and Windows have, where the long path to ...../bin can be 
> added before having to type such long commands?

Indeed it does, but as installed on the Mac “out-of-the-box” Lilypond doesn’t 
set up the PATH variable. This means that Lilypond itself can’t be run by 
entering “lilypond” at the command line.

As given above, the command is self-contained, which I think is a Good Thing! 

It’s (quite reasonably) left as an exercise for the reader to change the PATH, 
or put the whole command into a script.

Michael

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