RE: [PHP] Newbie: Reading unix directory information from PHP
| From: | Peter | Date: | Tue, 23 Jul 2002 23:32:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] Newbie: Reading unix directory information from PHP | ||
| References: | 1 | Groups: | php.general |
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on this you may want to have a look in the manual for exec(), the command I
used in my example, or system() they both let you run applications on your
server such as 'ls' and the like.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter [mailto:php@vfsa.com.au]
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 July 2002 9:23 AM
> To: Paul Oh; php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: RE: [PHP] Newbie: Reading unix directory information from PHP
>
>
> Hi Paul,
>
> this should help you out
>
> <?php
> $LastLine = exec("ls -lrt", $AllOutput, $ReturnValue);
>
> print("Last Line: $LastLine <BR>\n");
>
> print("All Output:<BR>\n");
> for ($index = 0; $index < count($AllOutput); $index++)
> {
> print("$AllOutput[$index] <BR>\n");
> }
> print("<BR><BR>\n");
> print("Return Value: $ReturnValue<BR>\n");
> ?>
>
> should work a treat for you ...
>
> cheers
> Peter
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Paul Oh [mailto:poh@cisco.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 24 July 2002 9:04 AM
> > To: php-general@lists.php.net
> > Subject: [PHP] Newbie: Reading unix directory information from PHP
> >
> >
> > Hi, I'm just starting to learn PHP. I couldn't find how to execute unix
> > command and read the result. Basically, I just want to execute
> "ls -lrt"
> > and read and display the output.
> >
> > This may be very simple question, but for some reason, I
> couldn't find any
> > info on executing unix command from PHP.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -Paul
> >
> >
> >
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