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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting [solved] awk: return code from system() always 0 ?? Post 302831481 by vidyadhar85 on Thursday 11th of July 2013 04:51:53 AM
Old 07-11-2013
I might be wrong here..

system returns the exit status of the command thats executed.. since echo $? was the last command and exit staus was 0..

However it should have returned the exit status from script too not sure why its not the case

I hope you are trying something similar below?
Code:
 
 
vidya> cat vv
date
exit 120
vidya> awk 'BEGIN{a="vv";v=system(a" ; echo $?");print v}'
Thu Jul 11 10:51:14 CEST 2013
120
0

 

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