It's when people write solutions like this that I realize that PHP is very undervalued as a general purpose language. Sure, as a web language there is a ton of

It's when people write solutions like this that I realize that PHP is very undervalued as a general purpose language. Sure, as a web language there is a ton of bad code out there because it's easy to learn. But for writing more advanced CLI systems it actually has a lot of nice functionality. See http://www.php.net/manual/en/refs.fileprocess.process.php http://www.php.net/manual/en/refs.fileprocess.process.php