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Diego Favero
Diego Favero

Reputation: 2145

How to make the linux/macOS command " .ls >> files.txt " run at php using exec()?

I Just wanna to list all files and subdirectories and store this list in file ... in MS-DOS, Linux and MAC OS, the command line -- .ls( or .dir) >> files.txt -- would give me what I want ... But, how to make a php script run it ?

if I use (on php)

exec ('ls >> files.txt');

I will get a error like this: Warning: Unexpected character in input: '' (ASCII=28) state=0 in /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/DjUtilities/makeLabels.php on line 29

...

please, any idea ???

The use of this will be to set labels with the musics in a cd, here, divided by directories... I wanna to get any cd's (subdirectories) and list the files (the tracks) to make a label with the track list....

So, The initial idea was to create a file with these data and then, process the data to make the labels... any better way to do that will be very welcome !!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 721

Answers (2)

lqez
lqez

Reputation: 3008

It's not up to your 'exec(...)' code. Same code runs well in my environment.

<?php
exec('ls >> filelist.txt');
?>

And It's result.

$ cat filelist.txt 
a.html
a.out
...(omitted)

So, It looks like your php file may has some weird syntax/characters on line 29. ( like wrong usage of backslashes )

Upvotes: 0

Douglas
Douglas

Reputation: 26

You can use 'opendir' and 'readdir' to do that, both native php commands...

Upvotes: 1

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