Re: Getting line count of a text file

personally i try to use as little shell commands as possible, especially stacked on top of each other in exec(). i'd just use explode, str_split, substr/strpos, etc. after i got it back. On 9/12/07, Wolf <lonewolf@nc.rr.com> wrote: > Novel approach... But mine's less typing. :) > > never thought of using awk for it though. Good one! :) > > ---- bruce <bedouglas@earthlink.net> wrote: > > hey... > > > > if you're going to do the system approach, go ahead and use awk/cut... > > > > wc -l foo.txt | awk -F' ' '{print $1}' > >