Gawk variables

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Arguments

Arguments are named like in bash, $1 for the first, $2 for the second, etc.
$0 refers to the entire line.

echo "foo" "bar" | awk 'BEGIN { print $1 $2 }'  # foobar

awk -f file.awk "foo" "bar"                     # akw scripts