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Besides reading the input and splitting it into fields, awk counts the number of records read and the number of fields within the current record; you can use these counts in your awk programs. The built-in variable NR is the number of the current record, and NF is the number of fields in the record. For example, the following program prints the number of each line and how many fields it has:
{ print NR, NF }
This program prints each record preceded by its record number:
{ print NR, $0 }
In addition to NR, awk supplies the built-in
variables listed in
``awk internal variables''.
awk internal variables
| Variable | Meaning | Default |
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| ARGC | number of command-line arguments |
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| ARGV | array of command-line arguments |
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| FILENAME | name of current input file |
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| FNR | record number in current file |
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| FS | input field separator | space or tab |
| NF | number of fields in current record |
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| NR | number of records read so far |
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| OFMT | output format for numbers | %.6g |
| OFS | output field separator | space |
| ORS | output record separator | newline |
| RS | input record separator | newline |
| RSTART | index of first character matched by match |
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| RLENGTH | length of string matched by match |
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| SUBSEP | subscript separator | "\034" |