<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> <title>System program execution</title> </head> <body><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.posix-uname.html">posix_uname</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="intro.exec.html">Introduction</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="refs.fileprocess.process.html">Process Control Extensions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div><hr /><div id="book.exec" class="book"> <h1 class="title">System program execution</h1> <ul class="chunklist chunklist_book"><li><a href="intro.exec.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="exec.setup.html">Installing/Configuring</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_book chunklist_children"><li><a href="exec.requirements.html">Requirements</a></li><li><a href="exec.installation.html">Installation</a></li><li><a href="exec.configuration.html">Runtime Configuration</a></li><li><a href="exec.resources.html">Resource Types</a></li></ul></li><li><a href="exec.constants.html">Predefined Constants</a></li><li><a href="ref.exec.html">Program execution Functions</a><ul class="chunklist chunklist_book chunklist_children"><li><a href="function.escapeshellarg.html">escapeshellarg</a> — Escape a string to be used as a shell argument</li><li><a href="function.escapeshellcmd.html">escapeshellcmd</a> — Escape shell metacharacters</li><li><a href="function.exec.html">exec</a> — Execute an external program</li><li><a href="function.passthru.html">passthru</a> — Execute an external program and display raw output</li><li><a href="function.proc-close.html">proc_close</a> — Close a process opened by proc_open and return the exit code of that process</li><li><a href="function.proc-get-status.html">proc_get_status</a> — Get information about a process opened by proc_open</li><li><a href="function.proc-nice.html">proc_nice</a> — Change the priority of the current process</li><li><a href="function.proc-open.html">proc_open</a> — Execute a command and open file pointers for input/output</li><li><a href="function.proc-terminate.html">proc_terminate</a> — Kills a process opened by proc_open</li><li><a href="function.shell-exec.html">shell_exec</a> — Execute command via shell and return the complete output as a string</li><li><a href="function.system.html">system</a> — Execute an external program and display the output</li></ul></li></ul></div><hr /><div class="manualnavbar" style="text-align: center;"> <div class="prev" style="text-align: left; float: left;"><a href="function.posix-uname.html">posix_uname</a></div> <div class="next" style="text-align: right; float: right;"><a href="intro.exec.html">Introduction</a></div> <div class="up"><a href="refs.fileprocess.process.html">Process Control Extensions</a></div> <div class="home"><a href="index.html">PHP Manual</a></div> </div></body></html>
