On 10/13/05, -k. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- Jasper Bryant-Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > $source_dir = escapeshellarg( '/some/dir/Dir That Won't Move/' );
>
>
> Unfortunately escapeshellarg doesn't work for all cases, it will escape the " 
> ' " in that example
> but it doesn't escape other characters such as " ) ". So...
>
> $source_dir = escapeshellarg( '/some/dir/Dir That (Won't Move)/' );
>
> ...fails as well. Any other ideas?

<?php
  rename("/some/dir/Dir That (Won't Move)/",  '/some/other/dir/');
?>

Or if you must use shell_exec(), use addcslashes() to escape the
annoying characters first.

 -robin

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