Error when deleting the last record out of a file

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 09:25:37AM -0600, Mike Schwartz wrote:
>     Yes, I was having another senior "duh" moment.  It's become so automatic
> over the past 30+ years to use the "-b" option and then do all the error
> handling myself, after I pretend a lookup has succeeded, that, late in the
> day, it didn't dawn on me to try the "-n" flag.

I'm curious: if you hide the failure of the lookup with -b, how *can*
you "do error handling yourself": you don't *know* there was an error.

Cheers,
-- jra
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