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Programming with awk

Built-in variables

``awk built-in variables'' lists the built-in variables that awk maintains. You have already learned some of these; others appear in this and later sections.

awk built-in variables

Variable Meaning Default
ARGC number of command-line arguments -
ARGV array of command-line arguments -
FILENAME name of current input file -
FNR record number in current file -
FS input field separator blank&tab
NF number of fields in current record -
NR number of records read so far -
OFMT output format for numbers %.6g
OFS output field separator blank
ORS output record separator newline
RS input record separator newline
RSTART index of first character matched by match -
RLENGTH length of string matched by match -
SUBSEP subscript separator "\034"


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