Re: [O] [babel] shell does not unquote

[Eric Schulte]

Samuel Wales <address@hidden> writes:

> hi eric,
>
> the object is to make the code inside a babel shell block as similar
> to a real shell script as possible.  also, calling it using #+call
> should be like calling it from another shell script.
>
> this isn't possible in babel at present.
>
> the script cannot use "$@" for its positional parameters.  it could
> use <<noweb>>, but that requires the creation of an extraneous block
> merely to do a call, instead of supplying the value in the call line.
>

A couple of languages already support a :cmdline header argument.  I've
just added shell block support for :cmdline, so the following is now
possible.

#+begin_src sh :cmdline "foo bar baz"
echo $2
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
: bar

>
> if making this possible is not desirable, then i will not request it,
> but i wanted to explain why this object is not achieved with existing
> babel options that i am aware of.
>

I hope the above is sufficient, if not I'm not personally able to do
much more on this front, although I'm always happy to review patches.

Best,

>
> thanks.
>
> samuel

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