I want to capture the output of the AWK unix command to a variable, instead of it directing it to the terminal or writing to a file.
Is it possible?

My script looks like:
servername=$1
username=$2
awk -F":" -v srvname=$servername -v usrname=$username -v pass=$p '$1~srvname && $4~usrname {print $5} ' inputfilename

I want to capture print $5 to a variable?

The mecanism is the same for all commands :
variable=`command`

or variable=$(command) with bash/ksh

In your case :

Thanks!