Passing bash variable to awk

Question

I\'m trying to extract a row/column element from a text table using awk within a function in bash. Specifically:

getel() {
    awk -v col=$3 \'FNR==$2 {print $c         


        

Answer 1

Or you could use bash variables directly:

awk 'NR=='$2'{print $'$3'}' $1

Answer 2

Pass another command line variable to awk:

getel() {
    awk -v row=$2 -v col=$3 'NR==row {print $col }' $1
}