Re: Passing string to awk

make it look like this ex.

ls -Fl |  awk '{print "\t"$3, $4, "'"$PWD"'/"$9}' | sed 1d

and you get what you want i believe, had the same problem  what you are
looking for in this ex. is this part '"$PWD"' that will get you your
variable, replace $PWD with yours.