Question

I am writing an application which takes text input from the user to generate a text file. A bash script, which takes the generated text file as input should generate another script as output.

I tried using exec command but I am not sure if it works. I want something like this:

exec('generate.sh input.txt generated.sh');

generate.sh takes two inputs:

1. input.txt file – has user input from PHP page(text separated by ‘\n’)
2. generated.sh – name of the generated file(to be generated by ‘generate.sh’).

How can I execute the bash script from PHP to get the above output?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The whole argument to exec needs to be a string like this:

exec('generate.sh input.txt generated.sh');