Thank you for the information -- I suppose the cygwin version of emacs may
be the only viable option. Still that seems like quite a big change,
swapping emacs versions, just for this particular feature.

2015-06-15 10:12 GMT+02:00 Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>:

> Johan W. Klüwer <johan.w.kluwer@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I'm having difficulties passing org variables into shell source blocks.
> > This is using Windows 7 and Cygwin with bash shell. For instance, the
> > following
> >
> > #+BEGIN_SRC sh :var x="."
> >   ls $x
> > #+END_SRC
> >
> > fails with the error message (as displayed in emacs)
>
> Works on OS X Yosemite,
>
> ,----
> | Org-mode version 8.3beta (release_8.3beta-1209-gc532ff @
> /Users/rainerkrug/.emacs.d/org-mode/lisp/)
> | GNU Emacs 24.5.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin14.3.0, Carbon Version 157 AppKit
> 1347.57) of 2015-04-13 on Rainers-MacBook-Pro.local
> `----
>
> Cheers,
>
> Rainer
>
> >
> >   ls: cannot access .^M^M : No such file or directory
> >
> >
> > As far as I can see, the first ^M stems from org-babel-sh-var-quote-fmt,
> > and the second from org-babel-expand-body:generic, but I haven't been
> able
> > to figure out a solution. Any suggestions?
>
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