Hi, As with the other recent sh-block email, the problem is likely due to the interpreter used (e.g., bash as compared to dash). See the value of `org-babel-sh-command' which defaults to "sh" which defaults to a POSIX rather than bash shell on many systems.
Best, Andreas Leha <andreas.l...@med.uni-goettingen.de> writes: > Hi all, > > why is it, that I can not use this code in sh blocks (I get sh: 2: Bad > substitution), even though it is valid when I run the tangled > script? Is this a known thing? > > #+begin_src sh :shebang "#!/bin/bash" :tangle test.sh > for i in *.org; do > echo cp "$i" "${i/%.org/.bak.org}" > done > #+end_src > > How can I get the above block to execute? > > Thanks in advance, > Andreas > > -- Eric Schulte http://cs.unm.edu/~eschulte/