Re: Getting line count of a text file

Hi Gang, On Sep 12, 2007, at 1:58 PM, bruce wrote:

if you're going to do the system approach, go ahead and use awk/cut... wc -l foo.txt | awk -F' ' '{print $1}' should work assuming you're on linux.....

I have solved the problem with this approach. Thanks for all the suggestions. FYI, it was a (very) minor pain to make that into a string. I ended up using this: $count = system("wc -l /path/to/myfile.txt | awk -F' ' '{print " . '$' . "1}'"); I didn't need to escape anything because the file was hardcoded - no user input. Cheers, Frank Schima Foraker Design <http://www.foraker.com> 303-449-0202