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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Novel approach... But mine's less typing. :)
>
> never thought of using awk for it though. Good one! :)
>
> ---- bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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}'
> >
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