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From: mcferrin@inuxc.UUCP (P McFerrin)
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Subject: Re: csh, awk help
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Date: Fri, 3-Aug-84 03:21:22 EDT
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Parameters can be passed to awk of USG 5.0 systems by:

	awk [options] variable=value

The variable on the command line will have the specified value within the
program.  If I recall, the variable will NOT be set during the execution
on the BEGIN block.