note 68647 deleted from function.shell-exec by cmb

Note Submitter: Kishan ---- If you are on windows and has Cygwin, You can execute all your Cygwin binaries using shell_exec() as follows: <? $result = shell_exec("C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe --login -c '/cygdrive/c/cygwin/bin/convert.exe --version'"); print($result); ?> The key is the "--login" option which appends all the required common cygwin binary and library paths to $PATH. Without this option some of the cygwin binaries that links to other libraries ( Like ImageMagick binaries which links to X11 ) will not work and you may see errors like "cygX11-6.dll not found, Could not start convert.exe"