[Orgmode] Re: [babel] Sh problem when echo'ing input data with ' inside

[Sébastien Vauban]

Hi Eric and Achim,

Sébastien Vauban wrote:
> Achim Gratz wrote:
>> The script produced by babel should actually look like this:
>>
>> #+begin_src sh
>> data=$(cat <<'BABEL_STRING'
>> Num.ro du compte :;979-9500975-24;Compte Maxi
>> Date valeur;R.f.rence de l'op.ration;Description;Montant de 
>> l'op.ration;Devise;Date d'op.ration;Compte de contrepartie;Nom de la 
>> contrepartie :;Communication 1 :;Communication 2 :
>> 04-06-2009;A9F04NT01WK300TG;Virem. 
>> internet;420,00;EUR;04-06-2009;799-5900947-23;PAYEE ONE; ; 
>> 24-02-2009;A9B24NT012K4018Z;Virem. 
>> internet;-54,93;EUR;24-02-2009;799-9974005-30;ME;Eigen rekening; 
>> 18-05-2008;A8E19NT000S604QI;Virem. 
>> internet;-1.000,00;EUR;19-05-2008;799-8068445-18;PAYEE TWO; ;
>> BABEL_STRING
>> )
>> echo "$data"
>> #+end_src
>>
>> That is no indentation and the here-tag should be in quotes (otherwise the
>> here-script is subject to shell expansion).
>
> The above, from which I even removed the accentuated characters (from French),
> still does not work...
>
> Now, I can imagine it is due to Cygwin, not to Emacs/Org/Babel. Though, that's
> a problem in general for the use of sh blocks from Org... under Windows, then.
>
> - Has anyone any experience with this?
> - Can some Bash user confirm what I see?
> - Can some Windows user confirm this with other Unix-emulation shells (MinGW
>   and the like)?

I asked the question on the Cygwin mailing list, and got an answer from Tobias
Schlottke, telling me to use the 'plain old' syntax (=`...`= instead of
=$(...)=):

#+begin_src sh
data=`cat <<EOF
...
EOF
`
echo "$data"
#+end_src

and... it indeed works!

Can we move to that syntax?

Best regards,
  Seb

-- 
Sébastien Vauban