passing command line arguments to awk

[Don Steiny]

In article <753 at moscom.UUCP>, de at moscom.UUCP (Dave Esan) writes:
> > 
> > I surrender  --  is it possible to pass command line arguments to awk?
> > If so - how.  

	awk ' statement ; . . . ' file

be sure and use single quotes!   Lots of awk characters have
special meaning to the shell.  The following prints the uids in
the password file from highest to lowest:

	awk -F: '{ print $3 }' | sort -n -r


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