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Shiwang Kalkhanda
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Shiwang Kalkhanda (RHCA, RHCSS, MCSE) is a Linux geek and consultant with expertise in the automation of infrastructure deployment and management. He has more than 10 years' experience in security, system, and network administration, and training on open source tech. For most of his automation work, he uses Shell Scripting, Python, and Go. He holds a master's and a bachelor's degree in computer applications. He enjoys traveling and spending time with his children. He is also the author of a book on text processing utilities in Unix-like environments, Learning Awk Programming.
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Environment variables in AWK

Like other programming environments, AWK also has environment variables. In this section, we will discuss the different environment variables available to users in the AWK programming language.

ARGC and ARGV

The ARGC and ARGV variables are used to pass arguments to the AWK script from the command line.

ARGC specifies the total number of arguments passed to the AWK script on the command line. It always has a value of 1 or more, as it counts the program name as the first argument.

The AWK script filename specified using the -f option is not counted as an argument. If we declare any variable on the command line, it is counted as an argument in GAWK:

$ awk 'BEGIN { print "No of arguments...
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Shiwang Kalkhanda

Shiwang Kalkhanda (RHCA, RHCSS, MCSE) is a Linux geek and consultant with expertise in the automation of infrastructure deployment and management. He has more than 10 years' experience in security, system, and network administration, and training on open source tech. For most of his automation work, he uses Shell Scripting, Python, and Go. He holds a master's and a bachelor's degree in computer applications. He enjoys traveling and spending time with his children. He is also the author of a book on text processing utilities in Unix-like environments, Learning Awk Programming.
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