GNU Direvent
	Directory event monitoring daemon	Sergey Poznyakoff

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5.2 Macro Expansion

Arguments of some statements undergo macro expansion before use. During the macro expansion any occurrence of ‘$name’ is replaced by the value of the macro variable name. Variable names follow the usual convention: they begin with a letter and contain letters, digits and underscores. Curly braces around the name are optional. They are required only if the macro reference is followed by a character that is not to be interpreted as part of its name, as in ‘${command}string’.

The following macros are defined:

file

Name of the file that triggered the event.

genev_code

Generic (system-independent) event code. It is a bitwise OR of the event codes represented as a decimal number.

genev_name

Generic event name. If several generic events are reported simultaneously, the value of this variable is a list of event names separated by space characters. Each name corresponds to a bit in ‘$genev_code’.

self_test_pid

The PID of the external command started with the --self-test option (see self-test mode). If direvent is started without this option, this variable is not defined.

sysev_code

A system-dependent event code. It is a bitwise OR of the event codes represented as a decimal number.

sysev_name

A system-dependent event name. If several events are reported, the value of this variable is a list of event names separated by space characters. Each name corresponds to a bit in ‘sysev_code’. See System dependencies, for a list of system-dependent event names.

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