current directory in awk

daWonderer · February 17, 2012, 5:17am

Hello,

I want to use the string with the current directory in my awk command.
I tried: 'pwd=system("pwd")'

but it doesn't work. can please help somebody?

ctsgnb · February 17, 2012, 5:23am

$ awk -v P="$(pwd)" 'BEGIN{print P}'
/home

daWonderer · February 17, 2012, 5:36am

pa=getline mypwd; printf pa

output: 1

EDIT:

found the static array 'ENVIRON' in manual.

works:

pa=ENVIRON["PWD"]; printf pa