Learning AWK Programming

Removing the breakpoint

The clear and delete command are used to delete the breakpoints. The clear command accepts the following arguments to delete the breakpoint:

• clear function_name: Deletes the breakpoint set at the entry of the function
• clear line-number (n): Deletes the breakpoint set at the line number n in the current source file
• clear filename: Deletes the breakpoint set at the line number n in the specified source filename

Now, we remove the breakpoint using the clear command as follows:

gawk> clear find_addDeleted breakpoint 1gawk> clear 12Deleted breakpoint 3gawk> 

Deleting the breakpoint using a line number is done as follows:

gawk> clear calc.awk:7Deleted breakpoint 2

The Delete command requires the breakpoint number as an ...