Re: Capturing output of shell script.

On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 06:36, Charles Williams wrote: > Hello all, > > I have an .sh shell script being executed from a php4 call. I need to > capture the string return and work with that in the php script. The only > problem is that the call works but I cannot get the returned string. I've > tried using exec, passthru, ``, system, and escapeshellcommand. Nothing > seems to work. any ideas? $capture = script.sh 2>&1; // redirect standard error to standard output Cheers, Brad -- Brad Hubbard Congo Systems 12 Northgate Drive, Thomastown, Victoria, Australia 3074 Email: brad@congosystems.com Ph: +61-3-94645981 Fax: +61-3-94645982 Mob: +61-419107559