Re: org babel execute shell in sh?

[Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>]

Panruo Wu <pwu@mymail.mines.edu> wrote:

> Dear list,
> 
> #+begin_src sh
> for np in {1..32}
> do
>   echo $np
> done
> #+end_src
> 
> when executing, the output only shows
> {1..32}
> which is clearly not I want..
> 
> After some investigation, I found that orgmode
> uses "sh" that cannot understand the for loop above.
> 
> My question is, how can I suggest orgmode to use
> "bash" to execute shell script?
> 
> I tried :shebang #!/bin/bash but it does not work
> 

Not a solution, just a workaround: you can write the loop
as

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
#+begin_src sh
for np in $(seq 1 32)
do
   echo $np
done
#+end_src
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Nick