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I’m running on win2003 server, PHP 526, via the cmd-line.
I have a cmdline string:
$cmd = ' 'd:\Prog Files\foo.exe' -p 'd:\data path\datadir' '; Trying to do this in php code
$out = `$cmd`; # note use of backticks AKA shell_exec results in a failure by foo.exe as it interprets the -p arg as ‘d:\data’.
However, the same $cdm string copied to the windows shell cmdline executes successfully.
How do I properly handle spaces in PHP shell_exec?
Use escapeshellarg() to escape your arguments, it should escape it with an appropriate combination of quotation marks and escaped spaces for your platform (I’m guessing you’re on Windows).