Question

awk doesn’t use $ in evaluation or assignment of variables.

(a) True

(b) False

The question was asked in an interview for job.

My enquiry is from Various Operations using Awk Command in portion Awk – An Advanced Filter & Perl – The Master Manipulator of Unix

Answer 1

The correct choice is (a) True

Easiest explanation: awk allows the use of user-defined variables but without declaring them. awk doesn’t use $ either in evaluation or in the assignment of a variable.