Re: Header title problem or convert-ly problem

[-Eluze]

Mats Bengtsson-4 wrote:
> 
>> There already is an example in the manual showing the use of *.
>> I think that is probably sufficient.
> Yes, but it uses a for ... in ... do syntax that only works in BASH, 
> 
there is a similar syntax in batch processing for windows: for  %x in (*.ly)
DO convert-ly -e %x
and you could use the option for /R  … to include subfolders!



> whereas
> convert-ly -e *.ly
> works in all OS:s that I know of.
> The main reason to include the more complicated version in the manual is 
> that convert-ly -e *.ly may fail in situations where you have a large 
> number of files in the same directory, since then the expanded command 
> line may get too long. However, this is such a rare case 
> 
i just (successfully) run convert-ly -e *.ly in a folder with more than
100'000 .ly files… - probably the ram (i had 4GB) determines how many files
can be processed!

altogether i would suggest to simply recommend convert-ly -e *.ly in the
docs

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