[Orgmode] Re: [babel] Sh problem when echo'ing input data with ' inside

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Eric,

"Eric Schulte" wrote:
>> I asked the question on the Cygwin mailing list, and got an answer from 
>> Tobias
>> Schlottke, telling me to use the 'plain old' syntax (=`...`= instead of
>> =$(...)=):
>>
>> #+begin_src sh
>> data=`cat <<EOF
>> ...
>> EOF
>> `
>> echo "$data"
>> #+end_src
>>
>> and... it indeed works!
>>
>> Can we move to that syntax?
>
> I just made this customizable, after a git pull the following elisp code
> will use that syntax on your system.
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>   (setq org-babel-sh-var-quote-fmt "`cat <<'BABEL_TABLE'\n%s\nBABEL_TABLE\n`")
> #+end_src

That's, indeed, better than what I had in mind, as it now is customizable...
... and, of course, that does the trick!

Thanks a lot for your prompt fix.

BTW, I would, though, advice to make this the default, as it should be fully
functional under any Linux, and then would be directly usable by any user on
Windows/Cygwin, without having to wonder why sh code blocks don't work the way
they should.

Best regards,
  Seb

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Sébastien Vauban