Php Cli & Cpanel

[metroservers]

Im trying to get PHP CLI work for a special purpose, however my machine is no
resonding to CLI commans:


for ex:

echo '<?php echo "test\n"; ?>' | php -q


does not output anything can anyone help me with this issue?


php -v
PHP 5.2.5 (cli) (built: Jan 21 2008 18:22:31)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies
with the ionCube PHP Loader v3.1.32, Copyright (c) 2002-2007, by ionCube Ltd., and
with Zend Extension Manager v1.2.0, Copyright (c) 2003-2007, by Zend Technologies
with Zend Optimizer v3.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007, by Zend Technologies