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: 
Why not declare your own `offset` variable:

```
(piped output....) |  awk 'BEGIN {offset=2} {print $0, FNR+offset}'

```
The correct answer is: DO NOT DO THAT!!!! Leave FNR alone, it is what it is. If you need some counter that represents something other than the number of records read so far in the current file, then simply create a counter to represent that, don't go messing with the meaning of the built-in variables.