Re: convert-ly question

[Malte Meyn]

On 17.05.2014 18:20, Tim McNamara wrote:
> On May 16, 2014, at 1:54 PM, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > Tim McNamara <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > > 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.
> >
> > find -name "*.ly" -exec convert-ly -e {} \;
> >
> > is how one would likely do it under POSIXy systems.
>
> Thanks, although when I run this I get:
>
> find: illegal option -- n
> usage: find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] [-f path] path ... [expression]
>             find [-H | -L | -P] [-EXdsx] -f path [path ...] [expression]
>
>
> This is on a Mac using bash as the shell.

Have you already tried the simpler version I posted yesterday? I wrote 
something like “for Linux” but if you have a bash on a Mac (I didn’t 
know there was something like that ;)) it should work for you, too.