Hi. I'm really not good in awk syntax or scripting by awk and therefore requesting some assistance.

cat $TEMPFILE | grep -v ^$ | awk '{print $2, $3, $4, $8}' | while read appname apphandle eitthvad pid
do
        cat $OUTFILE | awk -F ";" '$1 == '$pid' {print $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, '$apphandle $appname'};'
done

put double quotes inside the single quotes (before and after the bit that causes problems). By that way, that is a really ugly way to write code, with several UUOCs, and a UUOG.

Here is one way to do it. I would avoid passing in variables in the manner that you are attempting. It's too messy.

while read appname apphandle eitthvad pid
do
    [[ ${appname}${apphandle}${eitthvad}${pid} = "" ]] && continue
    nawk -F\; -v pid=${pid} -v apphandle=${apphandle} -v appname=${appname} '
        $1 == pid {
           print $1, $2, $3, $4, $5, $6, $7, $8, apphandle appname
        }' $OUTFILE
done < $TEMPFILE