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Old 01-28-2013
The avobe explanation is correct, for delimeter in awk use -F and use the value of "nth" filed. For runtime variable assing that variable also. using -v option.
Code:
 awk -vvar=5 -F" " 'NR==10 {print $var}' input_file

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