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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