On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:48:06 -0500, Chris Jones <cjns1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>I'm trying to figure out how I can test the return value of a printf >statement in an awk script. > >printf "format", variable >if (condition==bad) {exit 1} # if printf failed, exit > >I have been unable to find what the "condition" in the pseudo-awk above >might be. Why would it fail? stdout closed? Anyway, I can't answer definitively, but am interested and thus I suggest you ask on comp.lang.awk also. -- Dan Henry