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Subject: environmental vars in nawk
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Date: 15 Nov 90 15:06:42 GMT
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 How do you reference an environmental variable (which
happens to be a pathname) inside a nawk script? eg:

setenv CMCARC=/a/b/c

The awk script could be like this:

BEGIN { aa = $CMCARC
        etc...
                  }

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