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

At 12:59 PM 5/3/2001 -0400, Joe Brown wrote:

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.

The definition of exec() is that it uses popen() which starts a shell automatically. Anyway, the problem was very Windows specific and doesn't have anything to do with the syntax he used. Andi