Thanks for the help guys. The script works perfectly, really nice idea.
George
Patrick Horgan wrote:
>
> Jonathan Kulp wrote:
>> Ah. It never occurred to me to try to allow for anything but the
>> standard "lilypond filename.ly" command. That's a good idea. I don't
>> use anything but the standard command very often, though, so I won't
>> lose any sleep over it. I *was* prepared to lose sleep over the fact
>> that the output files weren't ending up in the right directory ;-)
>> Glad to have figured that one out.
> Instead of basename you could use the built in string manipulation stuff
> this:
>
> # determines the source filename
> srcfile=`basename $1`
>
> # removes the extension from source filename
> FILENOEXTENSION=${srcfile%.*}
>
> # determines directory
> OUTDIR="`dirname $1`"
>
> It does the same thing as basename, but more generally. In particular
> is says to strip off of the end of a string a pattern. In this case our
> pattern is simple, just a period followed by anything.
>
> Patrick
>
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