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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Variable substitution to show up in ps and jobs. Post 302911074 by OoozyFoot on Tuesday 29th of July 2014 11:29:39 PM
Old 07-30-2014
Variable substitution to show up in ps and jobs.

when creating a for loop (or any other parameter) then using that paramter in a background command execution I only see the parameter name, not the value.
I have tried eval and exec and a host of other options to try to get the text of the parameter showing, so i know what step is left...
e.g.
Code:
for i in dog cat fish bucket
do
    myCommand $i &
done
jobs
[1]   Running                 myCommand $i
[2]   Running                 myCommand $i
[3]-  Running                 myCommand $i
[4]+  Running                 myCommand $i

But what I want to see is:
Code:
[1]   Running                 myCommand dog
[2]   Running                 myCommand cat
[3]-  Running                 myCommand fish
[4]+  Running                 myCommand bucket

Moderator's Comments:
Mod Comment edit by bakunin: please use CODE-tags

Last edited by bakunin; 07-30-2014 at 02:40 AM..
 

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NDRDUMP(1)							  [FIXME: manual]							NDRDUMP(1)

NAME
ndrdump - DCE/RPC Packet Parser and Dumper SYNOPSIS
ndrdump [-c context] {pipe} {function} {in|out} {filename} ndrdump [pipe] ndrdump DESCRIPTION
ndrdump tries to parse the specified filename using Samba's parser for the specified pipe and function. The third argument should be either in or out, depending on whether the data should be parsed as a request or a reply. Running ndrdump without arguments will list the pipes for which parsers are available. Running ndrdump with one argument will list the functions that Samba can parse for the specified pipe. The primary function of ndrdump is debugging Samba's internal DCE/RPC parsing functions. The file being parsed is usually one exported by wiresharks "Export selected packet bytes" function. The context argument can be used to load context data from the request packet when parsing reply packets (such as array lengths). VERSION
This man page is correct for version 4.0 of the Samba suite. SEE ALSO
wireshark, pidl AUTHOR
This utility is part of the Samba[1] suite, which is developed by the global Samba Team[2]. ndrdump was written by Andrew Tridgell. This manpage was written by Jelmer Vernooij. NOTES
1. Samba http://www.samba.org/ 2. Samba Team http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ [FIXME: source] 04/16/2014 NDRDUMP(1)
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