PHP exec ls issue

Question

I am currently debugging some code and I am getting an error of: ls: invalid option -- '/'. However if I try the value for $somePath in terminal it gives me the result. Why am I getting the error?

PHP:

exec('ls -A' . $somePath.' | grep .', $output);

Terminal Path:

ls -A /home/userName/public_html/path/folder

Top Sekret · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-22 01:18:50Z

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Probably you meant:

exec('ls -A ' . $somePath . ' | grep .', $output);
// SPACE --^

When getopt parses options starting with '-' but not with '--', it treats each character as an another option. It thought you passed options: 'A', '/', 'h', 'o', ... It just does not accept '/' character.

answered Nov 22, 2015 at 1:18

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