This article is part of the on-going Awk Tutorial Examples series. Awk has several powerful built-in variables. There are two types of built-in variables in Awk.
- Variable which defines values which can be changed such as field separator and record separator.
- Variable which can be used for processing and reports such as Number of records, number of fields.
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