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benhoyt on Sept 11, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Awk book’s 60-line version of Make

Yeah, it's used in the top-level update() call in the BEGIN block:

  if (update(ARGV[1]) == 0)
      print ARGV[1] " is up to date"

teo_zero on Sept 11, 2023 [–]

Right, I missed that one, probably considered it a cosmetic feature!

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