Re: convert-ly

[Brian Barker]

At 07:22 03/06/2021 +0200, Hans Aikema wrote:
> the convert-ly script does not interpret wildcards, but requires the 
> file explicitly. The way you call it makes it look for a file that 
> is named *.ly (which can never be present as * is not an allowed 
> character for a filename)

Thanks for this.

> As documented on
> https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/usage/invoking-convert_002dly
> you need to use the 'forfiles' windows command to run the conversion 
> for multiple files using a wildcard:
>
> forfiles /s /M *.ly /c "cmd /c convert-ly.py -e @file"

But that resource claims that this command is required only for 
searching subdirectories of the current directory, and that
convert-ly.py -e *.ly
works for all .ly files in a directory.

Can we agree, then, that this is wrong and that (in Windows) the 
forfiles command but without the /s parameter is required even for 
handling all .ly files in a single directory? Oh, and that the copy 
of convert-ly installed in version 2.22 in Windows has to have its 
name corrected (to convert-ly.py) for anything to work?

Brian Barker