Hello Todd,
verbose was just in there so I could see what was going on at the
command line it is not in the php script becase there is no need for
it
Sunday, September 01, 2002, 8:41:42 PM, you wrote:
TP> Only just noticed this when I read my post...
TP> Why do you want to use verbose?
TP> If you want to capture the output for some reason, use this....
TP> exec("cd /change/to/dir; tar cvf /place/for/backup.tar files",
TP> $capturedoutput);
TP> otherwise drop the v (or --verbose) which will chew less resources.
TP> Todd.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Todd Pasley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Monday, 2 September 2002 1:32 PM
>> To: Richard Kurth; php-general
>> Subject: RE: [PHP] using shell_exec
>>
>>
>> Use ; instead of |
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> shell_exec("cd /change/to/dir; tar cvf /place/for/backup.tar files");
>>
>> Todd.
>>
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> > Sent: Monday, 2 September 2002 9:40 AM
>> > To: php-general
>> > Subject: [PHP] using shell_exec
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Can somebody tell me way this will work at the command line but will
>> > not work using PHP I also tried exec and system. from the command line
>> > it adds all the files and directors. But using the script below from
>> > PHP it creates an empty archive.
>> >
>> > shell_exec("cd /home/sites/www.directphp.net/ | tar --create --verbose
>> > --file=/home/sites/www.directphp.net/sitebackup/backup.192002.tar web");
>> >
>> >
>> >
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