Re: Bug #10638: exec(), system(), ... without reply

echo typically is not a program. It is a command in the CMD.exe or COMMAND.com programs. $output=exec("cmd -c echo hello"); //should produce the desired effect. Why piping output to a file changes this fact, is beyond me. <sb@bpm.ch> wrote in message news:20010503165014.19169.qmail@php2.chek.com... > From: sb@bpm.ch > Operating system: Windows 2000 > PHP version: 4.0.5 > PHP Bug Type: IIS related > Bug description: exec(), system(), ... without reply > > <?php > $output = exec("echo hello"); > echo "$output"; > ?> > > ...will nothing display! > (that's wrong!) > > <?php > $output = exec("echo hello > hello.txt"); > ?> > > ...will create a file named hello.txt with the value hello. > (that's fine.) Strange IMO, not fine. > > So the function exec() works properly but it gives no value back. The same problem occures in the function system() or in the backticks. > > I'm using Windows 2000 with IIS. > > > > -- > Edit Bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=10638&edit=1 > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >