Re: output files

[Mats Bengtsson]

It's easy to make a script that runs lilypond and then removes all the
files that are not necessary and renames .midi to mid. I have attached
one example. To run lilypond as a filter, use 'lilypond -', example:
cat file.ly | lilypond - > file.pdf

    /Mats

GoochRules! wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Is there any way to specify what files lilypond should output?  For 
> instance, I want lilypond to only keep around .pdfs and .midis.  
> Everything else should be deleted.  Also, I'd like to be able to specify 
> the names of these files, specifically, I want midi files to have the 
> extension '.mid', as QuickTime refuses to recognize a file with .midi as 
> a .mid file.
>
> Currently I'm doing this all with a makefile, I was just wondering if 
> there was support for it in lilypond.  Really, I think of lilypond as a 
> compiler that takes text input and produces binary output.  It would 
> make sense to me if lilypond was a tool chain that took input from stdin 
> and wrote to stdout, piping to various processes along the way (that is, 
> a preprocessor generates something like pcode and pipes it to a pdf 
> renderer or a midi renderer, etc, the output of which can be piped to 
> stdout, or perhaps a file).
>
> Just some thoughts.
>
>
> --M Peltzer
>
>
>
>
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        Royal Institute of Technology
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#! /bin/sh

filename=`basename $1 .ly`

lilypond $1

rm $filename.dvi
rm $filename.ps
mv $filename.midi $filename.mid