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From: "Charles C. Berry" <ccberry@ucsd.edu>
Subject: Re: Referring to an Org Babel variable in the invocation arguments
 to another Org Babel code block
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 09:56:03 -0800
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To: Zack Piper <zack@apertron.net>
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On Tue, 27 Dec 2016, Zack Piper wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Hopefully the below can explain better:

[deleted]

This is a workable idiom. C-c C-c on the second block produces the
output shown.


#+NAME: block-1
#+BEGIN_SRC shell :var x="X" 
echo ">>>" $x "<<<"
#+END_SRC


#+BEGIN_SRC shell :var y=block-1("input to this block")
echo $y
#+END_SRC

#+RESULTS:
: >>> input to this block <<<

HTH,

Chuck