Re: (re?)directing compile output to a file

[James Bailey]

On Aug 12, 2010, at 6:55 PM, Joe Neeman wrote:

> On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 06:56 +0800, address@hidden wrote:
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>> 
>> 
>> On Tue Aug 10 3:26 , Joe Neeman sent:
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>>        On Mon, 2010-08-09 at 07:39 -0500, Jonathan Kulp wrote:
>>> On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 6:24 AM, David Currie
>>        <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> I am a musician and a programmer.
>>>> 
>>>> How does one redirect/direct (lilypond) compile output to
>>        a file and not stdout
>>>> using command line options(or otherwise).
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> What you want, I think, is the -V command line option, but I
>>        haven't
>>> ever done this on Windows. I suspect if you use a command
>>        prompt and
>>> do lilypond -V filename.ly it will do what you want.
>>        Capturing it in a
>>> log file is then a matter of redirecting the output in the
>>        usual dos
>>> prompt way (which I don't know how to do, sorry).
>> 
>>        Or you could use the -dgui argument to lilypond.
>> 
>>        Thanks for your response,
>> 
>>        I have tried lilypond -dgui filename.ly  but   
>> 
>>          GNU LilyPond 2.12.3 
>> 
>>        STILL appears on the screen (even though all other (error)
>>        text goes to filename.log)
>> 
>>        Now, 
>> 
>>          lilypond -dhelp             advises that 
>> 
>>          lilypond -dlog-file FOO filename.ly   would write output to
>>        FOO.log.
>> 
>>        But this does not work - it says cannot find file FOO.
>> 
>>        No amount of operating system redirecting stops output to the
>>        screen.
>> 
>>        There must be some way to output ALL output (stout,stderr,
>>        any ) to a file.
> 
> Then I'm not sure. Isn't there some way, in windows, to check what
> arguments are used when you drag a file to a shortcut? Apart from that,
> according to the lilypond source, it will only print out the version
> string if stdin is a terminal. So perhaps you could get it to go away by
> providing a different stdin.
> 
> By the way, you're best off copying future responses to the mailing
> list, as people there may know better than me.
> 
> Cheers,

I don't know about windows, but on OSX, I do lilypond file.ly 2> file.txt