On Mon, 29 Nov 2010, Sébastien Vauban wrote:

> Hi Charles,
>
> Thanks a lot for taking a look at this, too...
>
> "Charles C. Berry" wrote:
>> On Sun, 28 Nov 2010, Sébastien Vauban wrote:
>>> Hi Eric and Dan,
>>>
>>> * Abstract
>>>
>>> Reporting two problems:
>>
>> Did you mean to include ":results output" in the headers?
>
> You're right that could be it. I often forget about adding that setting, even
> though it's more or less mandatory for the sh blocks -- at least, in many sh
> blocks I write...
>
>
>> When I do that in eaco of the src blocks I get what I think you were
>> expecting.
>
> I still don't. See below.
>
>

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>>
>> #+begin_src sh :results output :var data=a-couple-of-lines :exports both
>> echo "$data"
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+results:
>> : He said "I'll do it"
>> : but that cannot be echo'ed!
>
> It does not work for me. With the above, I (still) get:
>
> #+results:
> #+BEGIN_RESULT
> #+END_RESULT
>
> for results, and, in the *Org-Babel Error Output*:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> sh: line 3: unexpected EOF while looking for matching `''
> sh: line 7: syntax error: unexpected end of file
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
>

Hmmm. So it looks like 'sh' is having some trouble here.

Can you run the same code directly in the shell?

That is can you set/export $data and then 'echo $data' at the command line

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>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp results output :var data=a-couple-of-lines :exports both
>> (prin1-to-string data)
>> #+end_src
>>
>> #+results:
>> : "He said \"I'll do it\"
>> : but that cannot be echo'ed!"
>
> With or without the ":results output" (BTW, notice you've forgotten the colon
> in front of results), the result is the same. But, if you evaluate the block
> multiple times, in my case, the end marker (end_example) is still repeated...
>

Sorry 'bout the missing ":" - it outputs the same results either way on my 
box.

Chuck

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