Re: [O] org babel support for tcl and awk

[Eric Schulte]

> * Conclusions
>
> As you can see, I did not really mean any concurrent execution. Simply being
> able to execute parts of code in-situ, in the Org buffer, to document (and
> test) what I'm writing.
>
> And to be able to assemble all the parts in one single script file, by the
> means of literate programming.
>

I see, you want to be able to construct a large pipe chain STDOUT>STDIN,
but you don't care if the parts of the chain (e.g., the code block)
execute in serial or concurrently (as they do in the shell).

The attached patch (can be applied with "git am") implements this
behavior as I understand it.  The result is a new :stdin header argument
with which org-mode references can be passed to shell scripts as
standard input.  Given the technique used in this patch, I'll probably
re-write part of ob-awk.el.

The following Org-mode snippet demonstrates it's use, please let me know
if this works for your use-case described above.

** passing values through to STDIN of shell code blocks
#+results: square-table
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 4 | 5 | 6 |
| 7 | 8 | 9 |

#+source: first-col
#+begin_src sh :stdin square-table
  awk '{print $1}'
#+end_src

#+begin_src sh :stdin first-col
  sed 's/4/middle/g'
#+end_src

#+results:
|      1 |
| middle |
|      7 |

Cheers -- Eric

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>
> Best regards,
>   Seb

-- 
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/