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The PHP 5 command-line version now allows individual line processing, similar to Perl and awk. Use these flags on the command line to alter PHP's behavior:
The contents of the current line are available in $argn . This simple example prints each line of example.txt : $ php -R 'print "$argn\n" ;' < example.txt 1 2 3 4 5 The current line number is stored in $argi . The first line of the file is line 1 (not 0). So, to print out select lines of a file, do this: $ php -B '$start = 2; $stop = 4;' -R 'if ($argi >= $start && $argi <= $stop) print "$argn\n";' < example.txt 2 3 4 Modifying standard input disrupts the flow. For instance: $ php -R 'print fgets(STDIN);' < example.txt 2 4 Using the -R flag causes PHP to read in one line from standard input. Therefore, when you call fgets( ) , you read in a second line. This results in "missing" lines because both PHP and you are processing the file. |
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