Calling Awk in a shell script

Question

I have this command which executes correctly if run directly on the terminal.

awk \'/word/ {print NR}\' file.txt | head -n 1

The purpose i

Answer 1

you could also pass the value as a variable to awk:

awk -v varA=$1 '{if(match($0,varA)>0){print NR;}}' $2 | head -n 1

Seems more cumbersome than the above, but illustrates passing vars.