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Article #1708gawk exit "bug" -- a retraction
From: Jim Meyering
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 20:53
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 1990 20:53
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Regarding my recent "bug" report concerning gawk's exit command,
David C Lawrence (tale@turing.cs.rpi.edu) wrote to me:
>Your awk programme is buggy. You have told it to exit 2 as soon as
>gets any input lines. /dev/null didn't feed it any input lines so it
>doesn't hit that statement.
He's right. I die of embarrassment.
Unfortunately, I hadn't read the manual carefully enough.
The gawk program that prompted the pared-down "bug report"
had a {} rule with actions including "exit 2," and the pattern
END { exit 0 }
Now I realize what was happening.
Sorry for the false alarm.
Jim Meyering meyering@cs.utexas.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!CS.UTEXAS.EDU!meyering From: meyering@CS.UTEXAS.EDU (Jim Meyering) Newsgroups: gnu.utils.bug Subject: gawk exit "bug" -- a retraction Message-ID: <9002022053.AA01181@ai.cs.utexas.edu> Date: 2 Feb 90 20:53:43 GMT Sender: gupta-n@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Distribution: gnu Organization: U of TX at Austin CS Dept Lines: 19