Re: Getting line count of a text file

On 9/12/07, Chris <dmagick@gmail.com> wrote: > bruce wrote: > > greg... actually, i was the one that said this. > Sure they can - enable safe-mode and it causes all sorts of weirdness > with running exec or system calls. not to mention shell commands expect to be in PATH, and if you hardcode in /bin/awk, it might not be the same location in freebsd vs. linux vs. solaris vs. another unix. or a crippled or broken system. > I also disable exec/system calls in php altogether by editing my php.ini > file (see disabled_functions). > > Lastly wc and awk and sed are not part of the shell, they are external > programs. thank you. > Shell functions are things like if, while, do. exactly, thank you. your reply was much more eloquent than what i would have said.