Question

How to execute command via shell and return the the output as a string in PHP

Answer 1

$output = shell_exec('dir *'); // windows
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";


/*
run:
    
Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 82FE-B461

 Directory of C:\xampp\htdocs\workingframe.com

07/16/2016  01:04 PM              .
07/16/2016  01:04 PM              ..
07/13/2016  11:59 PM              bootstrap-3.3.6-dist
07/15/2016  09:32 PM             1,391 connect.php
...
       
*/

 

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Answer 2

$output = shell_exec('dir b*'); // windows
echo "<pre>$output</pre>";


/*
run:
    
 Volume in drive C has no label.
 Volume Serial Number is 82FE-B461

 Directory of C:\xampp\htdocs\workingframe.com

07/13/2016  11:59 PM              bootstrap-3.3.6-dist
               0 File(s)              0 bytes
               1 Dir(s)  31,290,167,296 bytes free


       
*/

 

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