Shell Programming and Scripting

declare -a array=( "LLC-load-misses" "LLC-loads" "LLC-store-misses" "LLC-stores" "branch-load-misses" "branch-loads" "dTLB-load-misses" "dTLB-loads" "dTLB-store-misses" "dTLB-stores" "iTLB-load-misses" "iTLB-loads" "branch-instructions" "branch-misses" "bus-cycles" "cache-misses" "cache-references" "cpu-cycles" "instructions" "ref-cycles" "alignment-faults" "context-switches" "cpu-clock" "cpu-migrations" "emulation-faults" "major-faults" "minor-faults" "page-faults" "task-clock" )


arraylength=${#array[@]}
#echo $arraylength
# use for loop to read all values and indexes
for ((i=0; i<${arraylength}-25; i++))
do  
  var1="perf stat --log-fd 3 --repeat 10 -e "
  var2=${array[i]}
  var3=' filebench 3>resultsfilebench' 
  var4=$i
  var5='.log'
  varfinal=$var1$var2$var3$var4$var5
  eval $varfinal
done

  /path/to/perf.shl  > perf.log &   # create a child process
  export pid=$!
  while [ kill -0 $pid 2>/dev/null -eq 0 ] # check the child process exists.
  do      
       sleep 10   # wait 10 seconds -- you change this to what you need
       kill -2  $pid 2>/dev/null   # sigint to child process --ctrl/c
  done