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).
Why not declare your own `offset` variable:

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

```