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How do I run Unix command (i.e. file) within PHP code?

Sep 19th, 2002 08:03
Philip Olson, Chloe Lam, Chloe Lam

A useful chapter, Program Execution, discusses how-to execute commands 
on the system itself.
  http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.exec.php 
Regarding this being "safe" or not, that depends on your individual 
setup and system.  Also consider:
  http://www.php.net/escapeshellarg