note 21866 added to function.shell-exec

if u feel the need to escape the shell command before running it through shell_exec, don't. it will not work. In the below example, i want the word count from a word document. e.g. $cmd = "/usr/bin/extract++ -v3 -s $path/stopwords.tmp -e doc $AL | wc -w $AL.txt"; $temp = escapeshellcmd($cmd); $return_string = shell_exec($temp); would try and execute "/usr/bin/extract++ -v3 -s $path/stopwords.tmp -e doc $AL \| wc -w $AL.txt" in the cmd shell. this doesn't work (as it seems to want to include th escape characters as part of the command to execute). by not doing the $temp = escapeshellcmd($cmd);... i.e. $cmd = "/usr/bin/extract++ -v3 -s $path/stopwords.tmp -e doc $AL | wc -w $AL.txt"; $return_string = shell_exec($cmd); works as there are no escape characters in the resulting command. -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+21866 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+21866 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+21866