how to generate unique string

Question

I want to transform an XML document into HTML. Some XML elements have links to others documents like:

In the H

Answer 1

You could pass in the command-line option -v with a variable name (v) and a value (=) of the environment variable ("${v}"):

% awk -vv="${v}" 'BEGIN { print v }'
123test

Or to make it clearer (with far fewer vs):

% environment_variable=123test
% awk -vawk_variable="${environment_variable}" 'BEGIN { print awk_variable }'
123test