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 14.3.2 Control of Execution
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 Now that your breakpoints are ready, you can start running the program
 and observing its behavior.  There are more commands for controlling
 execution of the program than we saw in our earlier example:
 
 `commands' [N]
 `silent'
 ...
 `end'
      Set a list of commands to be executed upon stopping at a
      breakpoint or watchpoint. N is the breakpoint or watchpoint number.
      Without a number, the last one set is used. The actual commands
      follow, starting on the next line, and terminated by the `end'
      command.  If the command `silent' is in the list, the usual
      messages about stopping at a breakpoint and the source line are
      not printed. Any command in the list that resumes execution (e.g.,
      `continue') terminates the list (an implicit `end'), and
      subsequent commands are ignored.  For example:
 
           dgawk> commands
           > silent
           > printf "A silent breakpoint; i = %d\n", i
           > info locals
           > set i = 10
           > continue
           > end
           dgawk>
 
 `continue' [COUNT]
 `c' [COUNT]
      Resume program execution. If continued from a breakpoint and COUNT
      is specified, ignores the breakpoint at that location the next
      COUNT times before stopping.
 
 `finish'
      Execute until the selected stack frame returns.  Print the
      returned value.
 
 `next' [COUNT]
 `n' [COUNT]
      Continue execution to the next source line, stepping over function
      calls.  The argument COUNT controls how many times to repeat the
      action, as in `step'.
 
 `nexti' [COUNT]
 `ni' [COUNT]
      Execute one (or COUNT) instruction(s), stepping over function
      calls.
 
 `return' [VALUE]
      Cancel execution of a function call. If VALUE (either a string or a
      number) is specified, it is used as the function's return value.
      If used in a frame other than the innermost one (the currently
      executing function, i.e., frame number 0), discard all inner
      frames in addition to the selected one, and the caller of that
      frame becomes the innermost frame.
 
 `run'
 `r'
      Start/restart execution of the program. When restarting, `dgawk'
      retains the current breakpoints, watchpoints, command history,
      automatic display variables, and debugger options.
 
 `step' [COUNT]
 `s' [COUNT]
      Continue execution until control reaches a different source line
      in the current stack frame. `step' steps inside any function
      called within the line.  If the argument COUNT is supplied, steps
      that many times before stopping, unless it encounters a breakpoint
      or watchpoint.
 
 `stepi' [COUNT]
 `si' [COUNT]
      Execute one (or COUNT) instruction(s), stepping inside function
      calls.  (For illustration of what is meant by an "instruction" in
      `gawk', see the output shown under `dump' in  Miscellaneous
      Dgawk Commands.)
 
 `until' [[FILENAME`:']N | FUNCTION]
 `u' [[FILENAME`:']N | FUNCTION]
      Without any argument, continue execution until a line past the
      current line in current stack frame is reached. With an argument,
      continue execution until the specified location is reached, or the
      current stack frame returns.
 
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