using /bin/sh vars in awk

[Jonathan I. Kamens]

In article <MAKI.91Apr29205859 at void.jit.dec.com>, maki at void.jit.dec.com (Watanabe Maki) writes:
|> 	If your awk is nawk(New Awk), it's easy.
|> 	
|> 	... | nawk '{if ($1 == fred) command}' fred="barney"

  Actually, this syntax will work with nearly any version of awk, not just
nawk.  It was available, albeit undocumented, in even the earliest distributed
versions.

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