Aloha Kaushal,
Kaushal Modi writes:
> Thanks Tom.
>
> Your solution almost gets me there but I still need to manually update the
> tar-file argument value in the #+CALL lines.
>
> What I am looking for is for something like below to work (but it isn't). I
> have multiple such #+CALL lines and I would like to not manually update the
> tar-file arg in all those.
> Below does not work because the {{{TAR_FILE}}} macro does not get expanded
> in the #+CALL line.
>
> #+MACRO: TAR_FILE some_file.tar.gz
>
> #+NAME: tar-eg
> #+HEADER: :var tar-file="" :exports none
> #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
> (format "> tar xzvf %s" tar-file)
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+CALL: tar-eg(tar-file="{{{TAR_FILE}}}") :wrap example :exports results
Perhaps this?
,--------------------------------------------------------------
| #+PROPERTY: header-args:emacs-lisp :var tar-file="bar.tar.gz"
|
| #+name: tar-eg
| #+begin_src emacs-lisp
| (format "> tar xzvf %s" tar-file)
| #+end_src
|
| #+CALL: tar-eg() :wrap example :exports results
|
| #+results:
| #+BEGIN_example
| > tar xzvf bar.tar.gz
| #+END_example
`--------------------------------------------------------------
hth,
Tom
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