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How to get value of "$?", determine if program terminated with error.
Both of your solutions save the output of the C program to disk before processing with the AWK script. I wish this was an option, but the AWK script is running on a small, embedded device with extremely limited DOC (Disk On Chip) memory. In fact, I didn't mention this before, but the main...- vittopaparazzi
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How to get value of "$?", determine if program terminated with error.
I'm using AWK to parse the output of an executable program written in C. In some circumstances, the C program will terminate with an error and return a non-zero value. In regular shell scripting you could always check the value of the $? variable to see if it was non-zero, and then branch...- vittopaparazzi
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