Exit Value from Awk

[Arnold Robbins]

In article <1990Jul17.203037.22283 at ccu.umanitoba.ca> mills at ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills) writes:
>Does anyone know how to set the exit code from awk within an awk
>script?

Yes.  Simply say

	exit <expression>

in the action part of a rule.  The value of <expression> will be the
exit value of awk itself.  The expression is optional, in which case awk
will exit with 0.  This works on all variants of awk.
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