Andras Major <andras.g.ma...@gmail.com> writes: > Hello, here is an example of apparently erroneous behaviour of the > :results switch. In this example, we use an sh block, but it also > appears to affect other languages (will need more investigation). > > Example Org code: > > #+begin_src sh :exports output > echo "Hello World 1" > #+end_src > > #+results: > : Hello World 1 > > #+begin_src sh :exports value > echo "Hello World 2" > #+end_src > > #+results: > : Hello World 2 > > Am I missing something here or should the second instance really > output something like an integer exit value from echo? >
Hi András, If we did return the value of shell scripts then ":results value" would almost always simply return 0 (or possibly an error message). For this reason shell code blocks do not implement value returns, but rather will always collect results from STDOUT. Best -- Eric -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/
