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

[Trevor Bača]

On 9/2/06, Benjamin Esham <address@hidden> wrote:
>   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?

Under bash, open .profile and add

 export PATH="/Applications/LilyPond.app/Contents/Resources/bin":$PATH



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Trevor Bača
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