Question: Is there any way you can alter the default value of FNR and then output it to the screen.

I have tried:

```
(piped output....) | awk '{FNR=0} {print $0, FNR}'

```

I am hoping that solution will be interhangeable with NR.

Answer: 
Yes, by using `BEGIN`:

```
$ awk 'BEGIN {FNR=2} {print $0, FNR}' file.txt
one 3
two 4
three 5
four 6

```

However, this seems not to work when input is not `stdin` (i.e. a file argument is given; at least not in GNU awk).
```
$ awk 'FNR > 2 {print $0, FNR}' yourfilename

```

FNR isn't necessarily interchangeable with NR. If you specify multiple files, FNR reinitializes to zero before each file. NR doesn't.