Only just noticed this when I read my post...
Why do you want to use verbose?
If you want to capture the output for some reason, use this....
exec("cd /change/to/dir; tar cvf /place/for/backup.tar files",
$capturedoutput);
otherwise drop the v (or --verbose) which will chew less resources.
Todd.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd Pasley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 2 September 2002 1:32 PM
> To: Richard Kurth; php-general
> Subject: RE: [PHP] using shell_exec
>
>
> Use ; instead of |
>
> e.g.
>
> shell_exec("cd /change/to/dir; tar cvf /place/for/backup.tar files");
>
> Todd.
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, 2 September 2002 9:40 AM
> > To: php-general
> > Subject: [PHP] using shell_exec
> >
> >
> >
> > Can somebody tell me way this will work at the command line but will
> > not work using PHP I also tried exec and system. from the command line
> > it adds all the files and directors. But using the script below from
> > PHP it creates an empty archive.
> >
> > shell_exec("cd /home/sites/www.directphp.net/ | tar --create --verbose
> > --file=/home/sites/www.directphp.net/sitebackup/backup.192002.tar web");
> >
> >
> >
> > --
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> > rdkurth mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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