Re: Mass file linting

[Guy Stalnaker]

You may know this, but on the chance you do not ...

Depending on your terminal shell (e.g. I use zsh), you can use the find command and its -exec option to find all .ly files in a folder hierarchy and run the command on them.

#> find ./* -type f -iname \*.ly\* -exec [python.ly command here] {} \;

./* causes folder recursion

-type f limits find to files

-iname ignores case

The {} substitutes for the file name. 

\; terminates the command executed. 

I've used this command syntax quite a bit. There are permutations for using find that involve piping to xargs without invoking -exec and using -print0 which are sometimes necessary (Google helps here).

Regards 

On Fri, Dec 18, 2020, 10:30 AM Knute Snortum <ksnortum@gmail.com> wrote:

This is a great utility!  I like the ability to export syntax
highlighting to HTML.

For changing a group of files, I would try:

    ly --in-place reformat *.ly

This will modify the files in place and give you a backup of the file
with the filename suffixed with a "~".

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Knute Snortum


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Knute Snortum



On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 1:28 PM David Menéndez Hurtado
<davidmenhur@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 17 Dec 2020 at 21:59, Fr. Samuel Springuel <rpspringuel@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> I’ve developed a large collection of music files over several years have recently noticed that there are some stylistic formatting deviations in some of them and so I’m looking for a tool that will check all my files for these problems (and ideally fix them).  I can do this in Frescobaldi using Tools->Code Formatting->Format, but I’m looking for a command-line option that I can use to fix my files en masse (and eventually incorporate into a check-in hook on my git repositories to prevent this from happening again).  Does anyone have any suggestions for how to pull this off?
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> pip install python-ly
> ly "reformat" input.ly > output.ly
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> That runs exactly the same that Frescobaldi does. More documentation: https://pypi.org/project/python-ly/
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> I found it poking around the Frescobaldi source, found something called reformat
> https://github.com/frescobaldi/frescobaldi/blob/f01cdbe2baee93f3ab361647a42885a1cfab6b40/frescobaldi_app/reformat.py#L46
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> That calls ly.reformat.reformat
> https://github.com/frescobaldi/python-ly/blob/master/ly/reformat.py#L102
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