Re: command line option to specify output filename?

[Graham Percival]

On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 20:59:33 -0500
Niki Pantelias <address@hidden> wrote:
>   Is there a command-line (or other?) option to specify the path and/or 
> filenames separately for the .pdf, .ps, .dvi, and .tex output files?  I would 
> like to send each of these to a separate subdirectory to make them easier to 
> keep track of when generating lots of parts.

Not Lilypond-specific, but a simple script will do that:

piece/
piece/out/
piece/ps/
piece/pdf/
piece/dvi/
etc


ly files are in piece/


shell script:
#!/bin/sh    ## usage: "ly foo." , where the file is foo.ly
cd piece/out.
lilypond ../$1ly
mv $1ps ../ps/
mv $1pdf ../pdf/
mv $1dvi ../dvi/
etc


This will move various output formats into different directories (you could 
easily
change the filename as well).  Any leftover temporary files will be in 
piece/out; you
could add a "rm -f piece/out/*" at the end of the script if that's desired.

Cheers,
- Graham