Hi Achim,
I was wondering how it would behave if the string that is put into a
variable contains newlines, backslashes and other things that bash (and
other shells) treats specially. The trick with cat and BABEL_TABLE is
resistant to this. As in many cases (when I use it at least) the variable
come from other parts of the org file and are computed through another
language (python in my case) I have such cases that would break.
Also, I think the test coverage for such things is limited for ob-shell.el
in the org test suite.
We should probably add some test cases for this, and then make sure it
works with your implementation as well.
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On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 2:50 PM, Eric Schulte <schulte.e...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> If this maintains existing functionality, please go ahead and apply it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Achim Gratz <strom...@nexgo.de> writes:
>
> > Achim Gratz writes:
> >> Sebastien Vauban writes:
> >>> I just ran `make test' and got the same error for
> >>> `ob-shell/bash-uses-assoc-arrays'.
> >>
> >> Yes, that's because not all versions of bash that have associative
> >> arrays can parse the bizarre quoting style that goes through a
> >> sub-process and here-document that is used to fill in the parameters.
> >
> > Here's a patch that implements the suggestion and tested to work
> > correctly with Cygwin and Linux.
> >
> > From a79aff65d562e59ed4e01e550224eb96a665c1ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Achim Gratz <strom...@stromeko.de>
> > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:23:28 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] ob-shell: stratify shell variable quoting
> >
> > * lisp/ob-shell.el: Remove unused defcustom
> > `org-babel-sh-var-quote-fmt'.
> > (org-babel-variable-assignments:bash_array):
> > (org-babel-variable-assignments:bash_assoc): Remove superfluous
> > `mapcar' and double quotes around parameters.
> > (org-babel-sh-var-to-sh): Single-quote the whole string and escape
> > all single quotes in the original string.
> > ---
> > lisp/ob-shell.el | 42 ++++++++++++++++++------------------------
> > 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/lisp/ob-shell.el b/lisp/ob-shell.el
> > index 474a8f2..7d87026 100644
> > --- a/lisp/ob-shell.el
> > +++ b/lisp/ob-shell.el
> > @@ -45,12 +45,6 @@ (defcustom org-babel-sh-command shell-file-name
> > :group 'org-babel
> > :type 'string)
> >
> > -(defcustom org-babel-sh-var-quote-fmt
> > - "$(cat <<'BABEL_TABLE'\n%s\nBABEL_TABLE\n)"
> > - "Format string used to escape variables when passed to shell scripts."
> > - :group 'org-babel
> > - :type 'string)
> > -
> > (defcustom org-babel-shell-names
> > '("sh" "bash" "csh" "ash" "dash" "ksh" "mksh" "posh")
> > "List of names of shell supported by babel shell code blocks."
> > @@ -113,28 +107,26 @@ (defun org-babel-variable-assignments:sh-generic
> > (defun org-babel-variable-assignments:bash_array
> > (varname values &optional sep hline)
> > "Returns a list of statements declaring the values as a bash array."
> > - (format "unset %s\ndeclare -a %s=( \"%s\" )"
> > - varname varname
> > - (mapconcat 'identity
> > - (mapcar
> > - (lambda (value) (org-babel-sh-var-to-sh value sep hline))
> > - values)
> > - "\" \"")))
> > + (format "unset %s\ndeclare -a %s=( %s )"
> > + varname varname
> > + (mapconcat
> > + (lambda (value) (org-babel-sh-var-to-sh value sep hline))
> > + values
> > + " ")))
> >
> > (defun org-babel-variable-assignments:bash_assoc
> > (varname values &optional sep hline)
> > "Returns a list of statements declaring the values as bash
> associative array."
> > (format "unset %s\ndeclare -A %s\n%s"
> > varname varname
> > - (mapconcat 'identity
> > - (mapcar
> > - (lambda (items)
> > - (format "%s[\"%s\"]=%s"
> > - varname
> > - (org-babel-sh-var-to-sh (car items) sep hline)
> > - (org-babel-sh-var-to-sh (cdr items) sep hline)))
> > - values)
> > - "\n")))
> > + (mapconcat
> > + (lambda (items)
> > + (format "%s[%s]=%s"
> > + varname
> > + (org-babel-sh-var-to-sh (car items) sep hline)
> > + (org-babel-sh-var-to-sh (cdr items) sep hline)))
> > + values
> > + "\n")))
> >
> > (defun org-babel-variable-assignments:bash (varname values &optional
> sep hline)
> > "Represents the parameters as useful Bash shell variables."
> > @@ -163,8 +155,10 @@ (defun org-babel-sh-var-to-sh (var &optional sep
> hline)
> > "Convert an elisp value to a shell variable.
> > Convert an elisp var into a string of shell commands specifying a
> > var of the same value."
> > - (format org-babel-sh-var-quote-fmt
> > - (org-babel-sh-var-to-string var sep hline)))
> > + (concat "'" (replace-regexp-in-string
> > + "'" "'\"'\"'"
> > + (org-babel-sh-var-to-string var sep hline))
> > + "'"))
> >
> > (defun org-babel-sh-var-to-string (var &optional sep hline)
> > "Convert an elisp value to a string."
> > --
> > 2.0.0
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Achim.
>
> --
> Eric Schulte
> https://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte
> PGP: 0x614CA05D (see https://u.fsf.org/yw)
>
>
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