From: Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org babel support for tcl and awk
Date: Thu, 26 May 2011 07:03:34 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k4ddmvj2.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vcwz9b02.fsf@gmail.com
Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
> Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:
>
>> Eric Schulte <schulte.eric@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> As an example, I've worked up an very simple ob-awk.el file from
>>> ob-template.el, it is attached along with an example org-mode file which
>>> demonstrates its usage.
>>
>> Eric,
>>
>> this is great to see as I use awk quite often. What is involved in
>> extending this to be able to run an awk script on input from within the
>> org file (output of another babel block, for instance, as my typical use
>> of awk is to re-arrange output from another program...)? Or, if you
>> wish, can you suggest one of the ob-XXX modules that best illustrates
>> how to do this and I can give it a try?
>>
>
> I've made a quick change so that any variable named "stdin" is treated
> specially, in that, rather than using its value to replace strings of
> $stdin in the text of the awk code, the value of the stdin variable is
> saved into the file processed by awk. This allows awk to operate over
> Org-mode references.
>
> See the attached example file.
>
> If babel code block supported a pipe or an actual stdin header argument,
> that would be the ideal way to add this behavior, but currently nothing
> of that nature exists.
>
> Please let me know if this misses part of your suggestion, or more
> generally what else may be advisable before we add this to the core.
>
I've now added ob-awk.el to the Org-mode core. The newest version
incorporates some change inspired by recent work with Sebastien, notably
:stdin is now its own header argument, rather than a special variable
name.
Best -- Eric
--
Eric Schulte
http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-26 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-24 9:31 org babel support for tcl and awk orgmode
2011-05-24 12:51 ` Eric Schulte
2011-05-24 17:53 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-05-24 19:03 ` Eric Schulte
2011-05-24 19:55 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-05-24 23:51 ` Eric Schulte
2011-05-25 12:30 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-05-25 15:57 ` Eric Schulte
2011-05-26 11:18 ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-05-26 13:37 ` Eric Schulte
2011-05-26 13:03 ` Eric Schulte [this message]
2011-05-26 15:15 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-05-24 18:57 ` orgmode
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