org-babel: Make results always quote the returned value in #+begin_example

Question

Github's org parser has a bug where they mistakenly show

#+begin_src bsh.dash :results verbatim :exports both
echo | time possiblycat 1000
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
:
: possiblycat 1000  0.00s user 0.00s system 75% cpu 0.006 total; max RSS 1852

as

(I have reported this on Github.)

I want to workaround this by quoting the result:

#+RESULTS:
#+begin_example
...
#+end_example

How can I do this automatically?

Answer 1

The org-babel-min-lines-for-block-output variable will help you accomplish this.

I've set the following in my configuration files in order to make #+RESULTS code blocks be always enclosed within #+begin_example blocks

(setq org-babel-min-lines-for-block-output 0)

Here's an example

#+begin_src cpp
#include <iostream>

int main() {
  std::cout << "a";
  return 0;
}
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
#+begin_example
a
#+end_example

Answer 2

I found the answer:

#+begin_src bsh.dash :results verbatim :exports both :wrap "example"
echo | time possiblycat 1000
#+end_src

#+RESULTS:
#+begin_example

possiblycat 1000  0.00s user 0.00s system 68% cpu 0.005 total; max RSS 1888
#+end_example