Re: location of the PHP executable

Don't you have to run locate -u first to generate the database before using locate? You can't just assume a database exists already can you? On 4/11/07, Jim Lucas <lists@cmsws.com> wrote:

Mattias Thorslund wrote: Hi, I have looked in the documentation but can't find it: My PHP script (which is run from the command prompt - CLI) needs to know the file system location of the PHP executable. This is because it needs to run a second PHP script. I know about the "which" command but it's not available in all OSes, and that might not be the currently running executable anyway. I could prompt the user for this, but that seems kind of silly. Surely, there must be some way of looking it up automatically? Thanks, Mattias What OS are you working with Assuming you are on a *nix box this should work #locate "/php" | grep "/php$" this should give you locations that have /php as the end of the line on windows you could do this cd \ dir /s php*.exe -- Enjoy, Jim Lucas Different eyes see different things. Different hearts beat on different strings. But there are times for you and me when all such things agree. - Rush -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php