From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <02d901c37090$6f9d7ee0$b9844051@insultant.net> From: "boyd, rounin" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: Subject: Re: [9fans] is there any good reason why awk does this? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2003 15:53:32 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 27c32124-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 i think awk should be able to exit with a string like everything else does/should with exits().