environmental vars in nawk

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From: afsijsf
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 1990 15:06

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 How do you reference an environmental variable (which
happens to be a pathname) inside a nawk script? eg:

setenv CMCARC=/a/b/c

The awk script could be like this:

BEGIN { aa = $CMCARC
        etc...
                  }

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