Alright, I've set this up so that the table is exported to a comma or tab separated format and then saved as a string to the variable in the source code block. By default tab is used as the separator when exporting the table to a string, but this can be overridden using the :separator header argument.
The following large snippet show some example usage of tables in shell scripts. Please let me know how it works for you and if you have any other suggestions. Thanks -- Eric --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- #+tblname: fibs | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 1 | | 3 | 2 | | 4 | 3 | | 5 | 5 | | 6 | 8 | #+begin_src sh :var table=fibs echo "$table" |wc #+end_src #+results: : 6 12 24 #+begin_src sh :var table=fibs echo "$table" #+end_src #+results: | 1 | 1 | | 2 | 1 | | 3 | 2 | | 4 | 3 | | 5 | 5 | | 6 | 8 | #+begin_src sh :var table=fibs :separator -- echo "$table" | head -1 #+end_src #+results: : 1--1 --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- Matthias Teege <matthias-...@mteege.de> writes: > On 11:33 Sat 06 Feb, Eric Schulte wrote: > > Moin, > > thanks for your reply > >> 1) allowing the user to specify a separator with a header argument as >> follows >> #+begin_src sh :var table=sec :separator , >> cat <<EOF >> $table >> EOF >> #+end_src >> >> which would result in something like >> >> : "Hello, World" > > I like this idea because it is what I would expect. In my first > "experiment", I assumed that I can use the "|" as a separator. I would > like to use a table as input form and pipe the rows to a shell script > written in org-babel. Sometimes it is easier to proccess data with > awk instead of using elisp. So my example is a bit misleading. > >> 2) writing the table to a tab or comma separated file and then >> replacing =$table= in the source block body with the path to the >> file name, s.t. something like > > IMHO it is not necessary under Unix. Reading from stdin is usual. But it > maybe different under Windows. > > Many thanks > Matthias > > > > _______________________________________________ > Emacs-orgmode mailing list > Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. > Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
