Re: processing a literal example line by line in a shell source block?

[Ihor Radchenko]

Greg Minshall <minshall@umich.edu> writes:

> hi.  i have a text in a named #+begin_example ... #+end_example block.
> i would like to process this text line by line in a shell (bash, say)
> code block.  but, it appears that the individual lines are not
> separated, but passed as one long string to the source block.  (example
> below.)
>
> is there a magic incantation i can use to accomplish this?

Try

#+name: lbl
#+begin_example
line 1
line 2
#+end_example

#+begin_src bash :var input=lbl :results output
  echo "${input}"
#+end_src

#+RESULTS[719e61ee2f3fb87459530cf75b7bbef74b7d4337]:
: line 1
: line 2

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