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06-24-2006

jim mcnamara jim mcnamara is offline

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the awk man page says that for exit <value> - value is returned to the shell and must be a value from 0 - 255

Code:

awk -f test.awk inputFileName
if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
    echo "Pass"
else
    echo "Fail"
fi