On Wednesday 10 May 2006 4:02 pm, Ginger Cheng wrote:
> Hello, PHP gurus,
>          I have a command that I want to run using system function. The
> command exploits temporary named pipes in the place of temporary files.
>
>            my command is
>
> paste   <(cut -f1  file1)  <(cut -f2  file2)    > final_file
>
>           It works perfectly well if I just type it in my interactive
> shell.  But if I do a
>
> <?php
> $cmd = " paste   <(cut -f1  file1)  <(cut -f2  file2)    > final_file";
> system($cmd);
> ?>
>
>           I got the syntax error msg as
> "sh: -c: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('".   I have tried
> to 'escapeshellcmd' the  command and run it in system, then I got
>
> paste: invalid option -- f
> Try `paste --help' for more information.
>
>          Also tried exec.  I really want to take advantage of the
> temporary named pipes so I don't have to worry about the temporary files
> generated.  I've been googling around without much help.  Could anyone
> plz give me some hint? Thanks a lot
>           ginger

Think you might want the shell_exec() command instead.

http://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.shell-exec.php

HTH
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