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You can't. awk prints to stdout that can be redirected, or to files defined within. You can use "command substitution" to assign a command's stdout to a variable, or you can pipe awk's stdout into a read command to read the variables.
 

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GPIV_ROT180(1)						      General Commands Manual						    GPIV_ROT180(1)

NAME
gpiv_rot180 - Simple data manipulation tool for PIV data. SYNOPSIS
gpiv_rot180 [-h | --help] [-p | --print] [-p | --version] [filename] < stdin > stdout DESCRIPTION
gpiv_rot180 rotates the data over 180 degrees. As rotating over 180 degrees is identic to flipping over x as well as over y-direction, flipx and flipy may be used instead of gpiv_rot180. The parameters read from the configuration resources (containing the key POST) may be overruled by the command line options, as explained below. Options -h | --help On-line help. -p | --print Prints parameters, command line options and input and output filenames to stdout. The output may be used as parameters of gpiv_rot180 for future use by re-directing stdout to gpiv_rot180.par. -v | --version Print version information on standard output, then exits successfully. filename Input PIV file. Overrides stdin and stdout. Output will be written to filename.ma.piv. The parameters will be written or appended to filename.par. SEE ALSO
manipiv, flipx, flipy, gpivtools AUTHOR
Gerber Van der Graaf 8 November 2006 GPIV_ROT180(1)
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