Re: Executing a shell script HELP!
| From: | Armando Cerna | Date: | Mon, 01 Oct 2001 02:32:51 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Executing a shell script HELP! | ||
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On Sunday 30 September 2001 04:38 pm, Andreas D. Landmark wrote:
> At 01.10.2001 00:02, you wrote:
> >I have a shell script that I am executing like this $files =
> >
shellscript; but if I do an if ($files) it doesn't
> > read $files as
> > existing. The contents of the shell script is a smbclient line that
> > copies a bunch of DBF files from another machine. Anyone have any idea?
> > Below is a little snipit of my code
> >
> > $files = updatemp;
> >
> >
> > if ($files) {
> > print "$files<br>";
> > print "I am god";
> >
> > } else {
> > print "$files";
> > print "It's ok you'll get it working. =)";
> > }
>
> using `s doesn't work quite like they do in BASH (and many other
> scriptlanguages)
> use passthru() or something instead...
>
> I can't really see why you're doing this in PHP as BASH would be much more
> efficient...
> and to some extent easier, not to mention that this isn't far off a
> one-liner...
Because I need to update the my mysql database via a web interface