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From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: [Org-Babel] Export environments for shell results?
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 15:37:24 +0100
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>> Could I ask you to make the source blocks reproducible in the future, so
>> that we can execute them without having to alter file paths etc?)
>
> Sure. I'll do.
>
> Here, I could have used another file that I can expect to be always at a fixed
> place (like grepping in ~/.emacs or some such).
>
> Generally speaking, you'd want me to pass the path as an Org :var parameter?
> Or using default environment vars from the system?

If possible, avoid using system paths at all. The behaviour you describe
can be replicated with something like

#+begin_src sh :results output
  for i in `seq 1 4`; do
      echo "autoload"
  done
#+end_src

#+results:
: autoload
: autoload
: autoload
: autoload

Dan