From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Joel Salomon <salomo3@cooper.edu>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] is there any good reason why awk does this?
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Date: Mon,  1 Sep 2003 13:41:09 -0400
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On Mon, 1 Sep 2003, boyd, rounin wrote:

> i think awk should be able to exit with a string like everything
> else does/should with exits().
>

Taking the original example:
>brahma% awk 'END {exit "foo"}' /dev/null ; echo $status
>
>brahma% awk 'END {exit 1}' /dev/null ; echo $status
>awk 8186: 1
I would guess that awk *is* using exits() but first exit converts is arg
to a number (if necessary), presumably for compatability w/ unix awk,
then converts the num to a string which gets sent to exits().

Ugh.

--Joel