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> Gawk exits with a zero `status' even with statements like "exit 1"
> 
> > ai% gawk -V '{exit 2}' < /dev/null
> > Gnu Awk (gawk) 2.11, patchlevel 1
> > ai% echo $status
> > 0
> > ai%
> 
> Jim Meyering      meyering@cs.utexas.edu

In this case, since no input records are read, the action is never
executed and thus the exit status is not set.  Giving the
program some input will set the exit status, as will the program:

BEGIN { exit 2 }

or

END { exit 2 }

In article <9002011730.AA25762@ai.cs.utexas.edu> meyering@CS.UTEXAS.EDU (Jim Meyering) writes:
>Gawk exits with a zero `status' even with statements like "exit 1"
>> ai% gawk -V '{exit 2}' < /dev/null
>> Gnu Awk (gawk) 2.11, patchlevel 1
>> ai% echo $status
>> 0
>> ai%
>Jim Meyering      meyering@cs.utexas.edu

Not so.  This statement is *never* executed, as EOF happens right away.
If you type

	echo hi | gawk '{exit 2}'

then it will indeed exit with a status of 2.  I just checked.
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