Posted by Bob Winter on 06/28/05 05:04

Brian,

Can you post more of the script?

--Bob

Brian V Bonini wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, [ISO-8859-1] Andr? Medeiros wrote:
>
>
>>$cmd = 'scp ' . $user . '@stagingcws.' . $tld . ':' . $directory/{' .
>>$files . '} ' . $tmp_dir . '/';
>>
>>That should work
>>
>>On 6/27/05, b-bonini@cox.net <b-bonini@cox.net> wrote:
>>
>>>Can not make this work inside a php script.
>>>
>>>Have tried several variations:
>>>$cmd = "scp $user@stagingcws.$tld:$directory/\{$files} $tmp_dir/.";
>>>
>>>$cmd = "scp $user@stagingcws.$tld:$directory/" . '{' . $files . '} ' . "$tmp_dir/.";
>>>
>>>etc...
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>
>
> No, I already tried it that way too. I guess I should mention this is a
> cli script if that matters.

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