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From: steinbac@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Gunter Steinbach)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Exit Value from Awk
Message-ID: <63720021@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 18 Jul 90 16:04:34 GMT
References: <1990Jul17.203037.22283@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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On p.  50 of the awk bible "The AWK programming Language", by A., W.,
and K. themselves, it says that the statement "exit <expression>" will
return <expression> as the program's exit value.  I tried it with things
like
awk 'END {exit 1}' < /dev/null || print "ok"

and it works.  I highly recommend the book, by the way.  Addison-Wesley
is the publisher.

(This was "awk" on HP-UX 6.5 on an HP9000/350 work station.)

Good luck -

	 Guenter Steinbach		gunter_steinbach@hplabs.hp.com