On Sat, Mar 28, 2026, at 11:07 AM, Ihor Radchenko wrote:
> "Tyler Smith" <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> I'm trying to update ob-awk.el to allow for code to be executed on remote
>> machines. This doesn't seem to work at present:
>>
>> ...
>> ...
>> After some limited testing, this seems to work. Does that sound like a good
>> approach?
>
> I think a simpler solution would be using `org-babel-process-file-name'.
>
Ah, that makes sense!
I'm not sure it's any simpler. The difference between them is:
(list org-babel-awk-command cmd-line
(shell-quote-argument full-body))
vs
(list org-babel-awk-command cmd-line
"-f" (org-babel-process-file-name code-file))
In my version (the first) we can also eliminate the local variable ~code-file~,
and everything is kept inside emacs (no need for an external file). I have run
into issues before running code on a remote machine where there were issues
with the ~/tmp~ directory, so there may be a small benefit to not depending on
file access on the remote host. On the other hand, using a tmp file is
consistent with how other languages are done.
Either way works for me on the examples I'm testing. Whichever one you prefer I
can put into a pull request if that's helpful. I did fill out the FSF paperwork
years ago, but maybe this is a small enough change that it wouldn't even matter?
- tyler
