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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: 'awk' test for file existance fails with nawk and gawk
Message-ID: <124136@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 26 Feb 91 06:13:16 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.172540.15875@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU>
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In article <1991Feb25.172540.15875@uvaarpa.Virginia.EDU> tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU writes:
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?   From: djm@eng.umd.edu (David J. MacKenzie)
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?   In other words, it relies on:
?	   awk '' files...
?   to exit with a nonzero status if not all of the files exist.
?
?... and people keep claiming that awk is portable.  :-)
?
?Well, you could use perl to test if all of the files are present.... no,
?wait....  :-)

Or you could just forget it. It's a waste of time.

As Bo says: Just Do It. Get on with building the thing.
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