Re: Capturing shell command output.

You may want to look into shell_exec, which executes a command and returns the output. If you're accepting arguments from user input, don't forget proper use of escapeshellcmd and escapeshellarg ;-). Something else that might cause your commands from failing, is that the utilities are not inside apache's PATH - trying to call them by there absolute filename can help out. Have you inspected your error_log? There often tends to be a lot of useful stuff in there. Good luck! Wouter On 18/08/07, shiplu <shiplu.net@gmail.com> wrote: > > HI, > I am working on a PHP project that interacts with command line utilities. > My php is running by apache. Means I am not running any php CLI. > > here is the function that I am using for capturing command output. > > function run_command($comamnd){ > $ret=$command 1> COMMAND.OUT 2>1; > $contents=get_file_contents("COMMAND.OUT"); > return $contents; > } > > The function does not work. If I use any shell command like ls, cat, > echo, set. it works. > But If I use any utility like, mpg321, cd-info. It does not work. It > outputs a blank string. > I used system(), passthru() with both "2&>1" and "2>1". But no > out put. > All the time, its blank. > Even I used a shell script "run.sh" > run.sh contents: > ===================================== > #!/bin/sh > sh COMMAND 1> COMMAND.OUT 2&>1 > cat COMMAND.OUT > echo 0 > COMMAND > ===================================== > > I called this script by this function > function run_command($command){ > $h=fopen("COMMAND","w"); > fwrite($h,$command); > fclose($h); > ob_start(); > passthru("./run.sh"); > $ret = ob_get_contents(); > ob_end_clean(); > return $ret; > } > > and by this. > > function run_command($command){ > $h=fopen("COMMAND","w"); > fwrite($h,$command); > fclose($h); > return system("./run.sh"); > } > > Please help me. or show me some way. > > > -- > shout at http://shiplu.awardspace.com/ > > Available for Hire/Contract/Full Time > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Interpotential.com Phone: +31615397471