How to use awk variable in search?

Question

How to use awk variable in search?

Name="jony"
awk -v name="$Name" '/name/ {print $0}' file

this will search for string name, not for $Name which is actually jony.

Answer 1

Correct, awk won't recogize variables in / /. You can do:

Name="jony"
awk -v name="$Name" '$0 ~ name' file

Since print is awk's default behavior we can avoid using it here.

Answer 2

Hope I understood problem correctly: Why wont you try following one:

awk '/'"$Name"'/ { print } ' testfile