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Description
$command
[, array &$output
[, int &$return_var
]] ) : string
exec() executes the given
command.
Parameters
-
command -
The command that will be executed.
-
output -
If the
outputargument is present, then the specified array will be filled with every line of output from the command. Trailing whitespace, such as \n, is not included in this array. Note that if the array already contains some elements, exec() will append to the end of the array. If you do not want the function to append elements, call unset() on the array before passing it to exec(). -
return_var -
If the
return_varargument is present along with theoutputargument, then the return status of the executed command will be written to this variable.
Return Values
The last line from the result of the command. If you need to execute a command and have all the data from the command passed directly back without any interference, use the passthru() function.
To get the output of the executed command, be sure to set and use the
output parameter.
Examples
Example #1 An exec() example
<?php
// outputs the username that owns the running php/httpd process
// (on a system with the "whoami" executable in the path)
echo exec('whoami');
?>
Notes
When allowing user-supplied data to be passed to this function, use escapeshellarg() or escapeshellcmd() to ensure that users cannot trick the system into executing arbitrary commands.
Note:
If a program is started with this function, in order for it to continue running in the background, the output of the program must be redirected to a file or another output stream. Failing to do so will cause PHP to hang until the execution of the program ends.
Note:
On Windows exec() will first start cmd.exe to launch the command. If you want to start an external program without starting cmd.exe use proc_open() with the
bypass_shelloption set.
Note: When safe mode is enabled, you can only execute files within the safe_mode_exec_dir. For practical reasons, it is currently not allowed to have .. components in the path to the executable.
With safe mode enabled, the command string is escaped with escapeshellcmd(). Thus, echo y | echo x becomes echo y \| echo x.
See Also
- system() - Execute an external program and display the output
- passthru() - Execute an external program and display raw output
- escapeshellcmd() - Escape shell metacharacters
- pcntl_exec() - Executes specified program in current process space
- backtick operator
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