How to get output of an exec call?

[laredotornado]

Hi,

I'm using PHP 5. Assuming there are no errors, how do I get the
output of an exec call? I'm trying

$cmd = 'strings < ' . escapeshellarg($file) . ' | sed -
n \'s|.*/Count -\{0,1\}\([0-9]\{1,\}\).*|\1|p\' | sort -rn | head -n
1';
exec("$cmd 2>&1", $output, $return);
if ($return != 0) {
$output = join("<BR>\n", $output) . "<BR>\n";
return -1;
} // if
$count = intval(join("", $output));
return $count;

But the $output array is empty. I have printed out the $cmd var and
verified that I can run it on my shell.

Thanks for any feedback, - Dave

[Jerry Stuckle]

la***********@zipmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I'm using PHP 5. Assuming there are no errors, how do I get the
output of an exec call? I'm trying

$cmd = 'strings < ' . escapeshellarg($file) . ' | sed -
n \'s|.*/Count -\{0,1\}\([0-9]\{1,\}\).*|\1|p\' | sort -rn | head -n
1';
exec("$cmd 2>&1", $output, $return);
if ($return != 0) {
$output = join("<BR>\n", $output) . "<BR>\n";
return -1;
} // if
$count = intval(join("", $output));
return $count;

But the $output array is empty. I have printed out the $cmd var and
verified that I can run it on my shell.

Thanks for any feedback, - Dave

Redirection is performed by the command processor, not the OS. To use
it, you must invoke the command processor.

For an alternative, look at proc_open(), which can handle the
redirection directly.
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