Error when deleting the last record out of a file

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2007 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: Error when deleting the last record out of a file


> 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.

I have no problem calling "deciding there was an error yourself" as part of "handling the error yourself".

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