diff --git a/wayback-core/src/main/java/org/archive/wayback/resourcestore/indexer/WarcIndexer.java b/wayback-core/src/main/java/org/archive/wayback/resourcestore/indexer/WarcIndexer.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/wayback-core/src/main/java/org/archive/wayback/resourcestore/indexer/WarcIndexer.java
+++ b/wayback-core/src/main/java/org/archive/wayback/resourcestore/indexer/WarcIndexer.java
@@ -136,6 +136,8 @@ public class WarcIndexer {
 				pw.println(lines.next());
 			}
 			pw.close();
+			System.exit(1);
+
 		} catch (Exception e) {
 			e.printStackTrace();
 		}
BUGFIX(ACC-<I>): was not setting exit status to non-zero when exceptions were caught... Uhg.

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