note 96249 added to function.shell-exec

Also after lots of hair pulling why shell_exec didn't want to work for me I found out that in my case some things needed to be set (which normally are set by default). the options -jo -j means: don't recreate the paths found in the archive -o means: always overwrite files And I needed to specify the destination path (even though it should unzip in the same directory when not specified), this is done by -d [path] The strange thing was that I didn't have to put these options when I would give the command on the command-line, only when I would call it with shell_exec. So the complete command in php would be for me: shell_exec('unzip -jo /path_to_archive/archive.zip -d /destination_path') And putting en echo in front will help you a lot. it should tell you something like this: Archive: /path_to_zip/archive.zip inflating: /destination_path/file1.jpeg inflating: /destination_path/file2.jpeg inflating: /destination_path/file3.jpeg ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 87.211.82.188 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/96249 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96249/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96249/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96249/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96249/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96249/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96249/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/96249 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/96249 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php