Exercise #6: Set Variables in Scripts

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“Exercise #6: Set Variables in Scripts

“When you need to set variables, you can do that in the BEGIN
section of an awk script. Here the variable firstuser is set to
1000. The BEGIN section sets that variable and it is then used
later in the script.”

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