Re: shell expansion (globbing) from inside php cli script

From:	Bob Winter	Date:	Tue, 28 Jun 2005 02:04:56 +0000
Subject:	Re: shell expansion (globbing) from inside php cli script
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Brian, Can you post more of the script? --Bob Brian V Bonini wrote:

On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Andr? Medeiros wrote:
$cmd = 'scp ' . $user . '@stagingcws.' . $tld . ':' . $directory/{' . $files . '} ' . $tmp_dir . '/'; That should work On 6/27/05, b-bonini@cox.net <b-bonini@cox.net> wrote:
Can not make this work inside a php script. Have tried several variations: $cmd = "scp $user@stagingcws.$tld:$directory/\{$files} $tmp_dir/."; $cmd = "scp $user@stagingcws.$tld:$directory/" . '{' . $files . '} ' . "$tmp_dir/."; etc... I can echo out the command and get a well formed command, i.e. one that will execute from a command prompt, but when I try to exec() $cmd from within the script the globbing is taken literally.
No, I already tried it that way too. I guess I should mention this is a cli script if that matters.