Re: Lua, Lilypond, and Linux

[Hans Aberg]

> On 22 Mar 2015, at 14:53, David Bellows <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> The call system() should always use sh. Try
>  lilypond example.ly 2> lily.txt
> 
> That does it, thanks! I took my syntax from the Usage manual and
> according to it this command should only send the errors to the text
> file but it definitely sends everything.
> 
> So is there a form that will work on all platforms or at least all
> *nix-based platforms?

Since sh is standardized [1], it should work on all platforms following that.

1. http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sh.html