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From: nreadwin@miclon.uucp (Neil Readwin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Exit Value from Awk
Message-ID: <1990Jul19.175312.19565@miclon.uucp>
Date: 19 Jul 90 17:53:12 GMT
References: <1990Jul17.203037.22283@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Organization: Micrognosis, London, UK
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In article <1990Jul17.203037.22283@ccu.umanitoba.ca> mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
>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'.

According to an old posting from jwp%chem@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu

# The user manual says that using the exit function causes the script to
# behave as if end-of-input has been reached.  Not mentioned explicitly 
# is the fact that this will cause the END block to be executed if it 
# exists.  Also, two things are omitted:
#
#   exit(expr) causes the script's exit status to be set to the value of expr.
# 
#   If exit is called within the END block, the script exits immediately.
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