Re: warning for duplicate definitions

[David Wright]

On Fri 08 Jan 2016 at 15:44:32 (+0200), Mike Solomon wrote:
> I’m combining several documents into a large book tonight and I am positive 
> that I have:
> 
> legato = \markup \italic “legato”
> 
> in at least 10 documents.  I’d like to consolidate these into a style sheet 
> but I’m worried that I’ll miss some, so it’d be useful to issue a warning for 
> duplicate definitions in case I miss some.  Is this possible?

Depending on how consistent you are with your syntax, find/grep might help.
I keep the following line in my recall buffer:

find ~/LilyScores ~/LilyLib -name \*ly -exec grep -H -i 'x' {} \; | less

so I can replace the x and do a quick (caseless, -i) search for anything
(-H for the filename when only a single file matches).

You could try something like:

find top-of-sources-tree -name \*ly -exec grep -H '\<legato[[:space:]]*=' {} \; 
| less

(Other OSes have clones of these tools.)

Cheers,
David.