Posted by Jasper Bryant-Greene on 06/28/05 03:51

Brian V Bonini wrote:
>>> I can echo out the command and get a well formed command, i.e.
>>> one that will execute from a command prompt, but when I try to
>>> exec() $cmd from within the script the globbing is taken
>>> literally.

Try shell_exec(). I don't think exec() goes via the shell.

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