From: Dan Davison <dandavison7@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: [babel] New handling of file output
Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2010 16:02:39 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1y67jdsgw.fsf@94.196.16.201.threembb.co.uk> (raw)
Please note the following changes to the way that org-babel handles
file output. These may break existing org-babel files which use
the :file header argument.
:file <filename> should be understood as saying "write the result
to <filename> and return a link to <filename>".
This works for all languages. For graphics languages (e.g. ditaa, dot,
gnuplot) there is no change in behavior: "result" in the above is the
graphics, and a link to the image is placed in the org buffer. For
general-purpose languages (e.g. emacs-lisp, python, R, ruby, shell),
the "result" written to file is the normal org-babel result (string,
number, table).
This is a backwards-incompatible change for R, which was previously
interpreting :file to mean "send graphics to file". I will send a
separate email concerning R.
In order to return a file link from a src block without telling babel
to save any results to that file, use :results <filename> and do not
use :file. The code block can of course write arbitrary content to
<filename>.
Some examples:
Save the output of ls -l as a .csv file (recall that :results value is
the default):
#+begin_src sh :file dirlisting.csv :sep ,
ls -l
#+end_src
Send the text output of ls -l directly to file:
#+begin_src sh :results output :file dirlisting.txt
ls -l
#+end_src
Dan
next reply other threads:[~2010-12-21 16:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-21 16:02 Dan Davison [this message]
2010-12-21 16:57 ` [babel] R: New handling of file output Dan Davison
2011-01-01 21:49 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-01-01 22:58 ` Thomas S. Dye
2011-01-06 17:14 ` Dan Davison
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