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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Finding PID of a process using variable substituition Post 302296951 by vgersh99 on Thursday 12th of March 2009 07:50:29 AM
Old 03-12-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by angad.makkar
To use the Shell variables, use "-v i.e. Variable" option in awk.

Do this:
fname=File$i
mypid=`ps aux | awk -v var="$fname" 'BEGIN /var/ && !/awk/ { print $2 }'`

Note, that your shell variable is fname...which the filename
and the corresponding awk variable is "var"
Hope this helps.
Have you tried what you've suggested?
Code:
fname=File$i
mypid=`ps aux | awk -v var="$fname" '$0 ~ var && !/awk/ { print $2 }'`

 

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zip_source_file

ZIP_SOURCE_FILE(3)					     Library Functions Manual						ZIP_SOURCE_FILE(3)

NAME

       zip_source_file - create data source from a file

LIBRARY

       libzip (-lzip)

SYNOPSIS

       struct zip_source * zip_source_file(struct zip *archive, const char *fname); "zip_uint64_t start" "zip_int64_t len"

DESCRIPTION

       The  function zip_source_file creates a zip source from a file.	zip_source_file opens fname and reads len bytes from offset start from it.
       If len is 0 or -1, the whole file (starting from start ) is used.

       The fie is opened and read when the data from the source is used, usually by zip_close.

RETURN VALUES

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       the error.

ERRORS

       zip_source_file fails if:

	      [ZIP_ER_INVAL]
		  fname, start, or len are invalid.

	      [ZIP_ER_MEMORY]
		  Required memory could not be allocated.

	      [ZIP_ER_OPEN]
		  Opening fname failed.

SEE ALSO

       libzip(3),    zip_add(3),    zip_replace(3),   zip_source_buffer(3),   zip_source_filep(3),   zip_source_free(3),   zip_source_function(3),
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