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ID: 43261 Comment by: d dot kreuer at ibrams dot com Reported by: RQuadling at GMail dot com Summary: Use ^ as escape char for windows escapeshellcmd Status: Closed Type: Bug Package: Program Execution Operating System: Windows XP SP2 PHP Version: 5.3CVS-2007-11-12 (snap) Assigned To: scottmac Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: This issue is not fixed. It happened that I tried to use PHPUnit which escapes the command to invoke PHP. In my installation the php.exe can be found under the following path: C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.3\php.exe This is the default path for a PHP installation in combination with Windows and IIS (+ Platform Installer). This path is currently escaped in the following way: C:^\Program Files ^(x86^)^\PHP^\v5.3^\php.exe Called from the commandline (which I assume is the same as called via exec()) the following happens: C:\>C:^\Program Files ^(x86^)^\PHP^\v5.3^\php.exe The command "C:\Program" is invalid or could not be found. Even escaping the spaces does not work: C:\>C:^\Program^ Files^ ^(x86^)^\PHP^\v5.3^\php.exe Could not open input file: Files Additionally surrounding the command with quotation marks which normally does not fail (because the spaces are threated as part of the command) does not work: C:\>"C:^\Program Files ^(x86^)^\PHP^\v5.3^\php.exe" The system cannot find the path specified. If I run the command not escaped via escapeshellcmd() and only surrounded with quotes, it works. C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.3\php.exe" -v PHP 5.3.8 (cli) (built: Aug 23 2011 12:14:39) Used PHP Version is 5.3.8 (NTS) and OS is Windows 7. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-07-22 16:22:07] scott...@php.net This bug has been fixed in CVS. Snapshots of the sources are packaged every three hours; this change will be in the next snapshot. You can grab the snapshot at http://snaps.php.net/. Thank you for the report, and for helping us make PHP better. Test added for this now. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-06-10 12:10:08] paj...@php.net Assigned to Scott, needs more tests cases and explanation (as it may break a lot of scripts). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-06-10 10:20:14] ka...@php.net Actually Scott fixed this without marking it as fixed =) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-06-10 10:12:54] ka...@php.net Well if nobody else wanna apply it, then Ill take it =) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2008-05-30 09:35:31] RQuadling at GMail dot com Gee. Even with a patch, how do I get anyone to pay any attention!? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43261 -- Edit this bug report at https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=43261&edit=1
