Re: question about executing a bash shell script...
| From: | Robert Cummings | Date: | Fri, 16 Aug 2002 20:44:37 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: question about executing a bash shell script... | ||
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Kelly Meeks wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm learning shell scripting via linux, and have written a script that creates the core
> files necessary for a users website from a master set of files.
>
> Works from the shell just fine (bash makethesite.sh username pathtoputfiles pathtogetfiles)
>
> Trying to execute this via php, and it literally does nothing.
>
> If I try something like:
> $bashoutput=shell_exec('bash makethesite.sh username pathtoputfiles pathtogetfiles');
> echo $bashoutput;
>
> I get nothing output, and the script doesn't execute.
I'm asuming you are executing something like the following:
php myPhpScript.php
The following will probably give you the desired results...
php -qC myPhpScript.php
This prevents PHP from switching out of the current directory.
HTH,
Rob.
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