I can't help with a solution, but I can at least confirm I see the same behavior!
John ----------------------------------- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 10:00 AM Steven Tilley <st...@steventilley.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > First off, thanks for the great tool, and thanks to anyone who takes the > time to read this. > > This is sort of a followup on my previous email, but I was wondering if > anybody uses org-babel with bash in session mode? I've found it to be > pretty buggy for all but simple tasks, and I was wondering if I'm doing > something wrong. My googling hasn't lead to many hits, so I suspect that > might be the case. The previous email (below) is just one example, but > generally I've had problems when using multiline commands (e.g. loops, > declaring functions, etc). > > Thanks > Steve > > On Wed, Feb 27, 2019, at 4:48 PM, Steven Tilley wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I posted this on stackoverflow [1], and they suggested I post it here. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > > I've noticed in org-babel when using a bash session with multiline > > statements (e.g. a for loop), the output contains extra characters > > (specifically ">"s and the prompt. The output can also change > > throughout the session. An example is below. I found this link, which > > is probably related, but I'm not sure. I'm relatively new to emacs/org, > > so digging into the internals is a little beyond me at this point. > > Thanks! > > > > No session -> correct output > > > > #+BEGIN_SRC bash :results output > > for i in 1 2 3 > > do > > echo $i > > done > > #+END_SRC > > > > #+RESULTS: > > : 1 > > : 2 > > : 3 > > > > Session -> Incorrect output > > > > #+BEGIN_SRC bash :session test_session :results output > > for i in 1 2 3 > > do > > echo $i > > done > > #+END_SRC > > > > #+RESULTS: > > : > > : > > > 1 > > : 2 > > : 3 > > > > Running the same command in the same session, and the output changes > > > > #+BEGIN_SRC bash :session test_session :results output > > for i in 1 2 3 > > do > > echo $i > > done > > #+END_SRC > > > > #+RESULTS: > > : > > : > > 1 > > : 2 > > : 3 > > > > New session, but loop is all one one line -> incorrect output > > > > #+BEGIN_SRC bash :session test_session2 :results output > > for i in 1 2 3; do echo $i; done > > #+END_SRC > > > > #+RESULTS: > > : > > : 1 > > : 2 > > : 3 > > > > Thanks > > Steve > > > > > > [1] > > > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54909018/org-babel-bash-output-with-sessions > > > > > >