Use org-babel-expand-block (C-c C-v v) to view the code block with the variable expansion.
Best, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> writes: > i don't know why the shell does not unquote here: > > #+BEGIN_SRC sh :results verbatim output :var how="a 'b' \c \"d\" e" > :var dothis="echo \"hi\"" > echo $how > $dothis > #+END_SRC > > #+RESULTS: > #+begin_example > a 'b' c "d" e > "hi" > #+end_example > > thanks. > > samuel -- Eric Schulte https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte PGP: 0x614CA05D