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From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Exit Value from Awk
Message-ID: <1990Jul17.203037.22283@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 17 Jul 90 20:30:37 GMT
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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Does anyone know how to set the exit code from awk within an awk
script?  My AT&T and Sun manuals are silent on this.  I want to
be able to do: `awk -f file file || cat file'.
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-Gary Mills-             -University of Manitoba-             -Winnipeg-