Neil Best <nb...@ci.uchicago.edu> writes:
> Can sh source block take arguments? I get nothing.
>
> #+NAME: test(foo="bar")
> #+BEGIN_SRC sh :session :results output verbatim replace
> echo "1. foo is $foo"
> echo "2. foo is ${foo}"
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : 1. foo is
> : 2. foo is
>
>
> . . . but this is fine:
>
> #+NAME: test2
> #+BEGIN_SRC sh :var foo="bar" :session :results output verbatim
> replace
> echo "1. foo is $foo"
> echo "2. foo is ${foo}"
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : 1. foo is bar
> : 2. foo is bar
>
> When I tried this:
>
> #+CALL: test("baz")
>
> I get "reference 'test' not found in this buffer" -- what does this
> mean? I got a similar message when I tried to define a simple call
> using an R fragment that has a session associated with it. Evaluating
> the code block with the default argument works fine, but a #+CALL:
> construct fails. Maybe this is a separate issue.
>
> I trolled the web for relevant examples or reports but found none. My
> setup is pretty much out-of-the-box. I am on Ubuntu Oneiric so sh is
> a symlink to dash. I was not aware of dash until now so I don't know
> what the implications of that are.
>
> This example may be overly trivial. My ultimate goal is to generate
> shell scripts as function of the argument and tangle them out
> something like this:
>
> #+BEGIN_SRC sh :tangle someArg.sh
> <<script("someArg")>>
> #+END_SRC
>
> So the results of the "function" will be lines of script code with
> variables already interpolated using echo and a heredoc. Note that
> test2 will not allow me to paramterize this, AFAIK. I'll have to
> write each tangle block by hand but there's a small number of them.
> If there is a more clever way I am certainly interested, but it seems
> irrelevant until I understand what is happening above. Thanks. I am
> very intrigued by LP possibilities using Org after messing with Sweave
> for a year+, so please bear with me as I cut my teeth.
>
Hi Neil,
Are you using the latest version of Org-mode? I ask because all of your
examples work as expected on my system, specifically I get the
following...
Best,
#+NAME: test(foo="bar")
#+BEGIN_SRC sh :session :results output verbatim replace
echo "1. foo is $foo"
echo "2. foo is ${foo}"
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS: test
: 1. foo is bar
: 2. foo is bar
. . . but this is fine:
#+NAME: test2
#+BEGIN_SRC sh :var foo="bar" :session :results output verbatim
replace
echo "1. foo is $foo"
echo "2. foo is ${foo}"
#+END_SRC
#+RESULTS: test2
: 1. foo is bar
: 2. foo is bar
#+RESULTS:
: 1. foo is bar
: 2. foo is bar
When I tried this:
#+CALL: test("baz")
#+RESULTS: test("baz")
: 1. foo is baz
: 2. foo is baz
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
