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Subject: Re: [9fans] is there any good reason why awk does this?
From: "rob pike, esq." <rob@mightycheese.com>
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Date: Mon,  1 Sep 2003 10:35:47 -0700
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> i think awk should be able to exit with a string like everything
> else does/should with exits().

it's ported from and maintained as a posix program; it calls exit.
regex wasn't kept compatible, though, so i suppose exit could
go too, but it seems not worth the trouble.