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 should use AWK's variable passing feature:

awk -v patt="$1" '$0 ~ patt {print NR; exit}' "$2"

The exit makes the head -1 unnecessary.