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Asked: 2026-06-09T01:52:24+00:00

This might be a stupid question, but it would great to be able to

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This might be a stupid question, but it would great to be able to do this. I have a custom made admin section on a website of mine. I have a cron job set to run this file once a day /opt/webalizerScript.sh however, I would like to easily be able to execute that command from my admin section any time I want a fresh update on traffic stats from webalizer. I don’t really want to edit the cron, because I don’t intend on executing the script manually very often and once per day is fine for automated purposes. Granted I know I can just execute the script in a shell, but that negates the whole purpose of what I am trying to do.

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  1. Editorial Team

    While Amadan’s answer is a good overview, I thought I’d drop in a simple php script as a demonstration. This script assumes that bash will be the default shell of your web server.

    demo.php runs “ls -alFh” but you can substitute any command

    <html>
  <head>
    <title>Output of my bash script</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Output of my bash script</h1>
<pre>
<?php system("ls -alFh", $rc); ?>
</pre>
    <br>
    <?php echo "Return Code: {$rc}\n"; ?>
  </body>
</html>
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