Execute PHP file from command line linux code example

Example 1: how to execute cmd command in php

I'm not sure what shell you are going to get with this function, but you can find out like this:

".shell_exec($cmd)."
"; ?> On my FreeBSD 6.1 box I get this: USER=root LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib/apache2: HOME=/root PS1='$ ' OPTIND=1 PS2='> ' LOGNAME=root PPID=88057 PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin SHELL=/bin/sh IFS=' ' Very interesting. Note that the PATH may not be as complete as you need. I wanted to run Ghostscript via ImageMagik's "convert" and ended up having to add my path before running the command: &1'; echo "
".shell_exec($cmd)."
"; ?> ALSO, note that shell_exec() does not grab STDERR, so use "2>&1" to redirect it to STDOUT and catch it.

Example 2: php run command line

shell_exec('ls');
// or
exec('ls');

Example 3: execute php file from command line

php -f /path/to/your/file.php

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