Okay, if you check this
<https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/14979/access-to-the-elisp-commands-behind-eshell-commands/14981#14981>
you'll
see the answer I was after. With eshell you can "stay within" emacs to do
system/command line stuff. Now, with the elisp code behind eshell I can
stay within org-mode within emacs for system stuff. Sure, I could put sh in
blocks, but stepping up into scripting seems like a good practice to
develop.

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 2:44 PM, Lawrence Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is there any way to do literate Babel-style things with eshell? Only shell
> (sh) seems to be listed among the languages. As I understand, eshell is
> just a wrapper around actual elisp expressions. For example,
>
> find-file foobar.txt
>
> is actually
>
> (find-file "foobar.txt")
>
> I'd like to do shell-like stuff and capture everything literate-style in
> code and result blocks. If no Babel for eshell, is there a way to translate
> eshell into its raw elisp? Then I could do Babel on the elisp.
>
> LB
>