Exit Value from Awk

[Richard Stevens]

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?

Just say  "exit <expression>".  I just tried it and it works under
V7 awk, SVR3.1 awk, nawk, and gawk.

	Richard Stevens
	3M Health Information Systems, Wallingford, CT
	   stevens at hsi.com