My goal is to be able to submit a search query from a web form and have an AppleScript execute the search in DEVONagent. The AppleScript works fine in terminal but I get an error when having PHP do a shell_exec().
<?php
$theQuery = $_GET["Query"];
$cmd = "theSearch=\"$theQuery\" osascript -e \"set theSearch to system attribute " . "\\" . "\"theSearch" . "\\" . "\"\" -e \"tell application " . "\\" . "\"DEVONagent" . "\\" . "\"\" -e \"search theSearch using set " . "\\" . "\"Web (Deep Link)" . "\\" . "\"\" -e \"end tell\" 2>&1";
echo "<pre>$cmd</pre><BR><BR>";
$theResponse = shell_exec ( $cmd );
echo "Your search for \"$theQuery\" has started and the results will be emailed to you once complete.";
echo "<pre>$theResponse</pre>";
?>
I end up with the following error from the $theResponse echo:
83:92: syntax error: Expected end of line but found identifier. (-2741)
I'm thinking maybe a permissions thing but I just cannot figure it out.
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When this shell_exec command runs within my function, only the first url parameter is passed to the receiving php file. I suspect I am not constructing the command correctly.
shell_exec("curl https://inklines.art/process_emails.php?url=" . $full_site_url . "&domain=" . $domain . "&site=" . $site_title . "&title=" . $title . "&permalink=" . $permalink);
How should the command be constructed to pass all the variables?
Thanks much!
I want to run PowerShell script as admin from PHP. I am using below command to run the script, but it does not get executed as admin.
Any help how to get this working ?
I am using older version of XAMP.
$output=shell_exec('C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe -command E:\XAMPP_DV\htdocs\project\lib\pwdreset.ps1 ' . $user . " " . $pwd);
I'm going to go out on a limb and assume you don't have policies set up properly:
$output = shell_exec('powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -NoProfile -File "E:\XAMPP_DV\htdocs\project\lib\pwdreset.ps1" ' . $user . ' ' . $pwd);
In almost all cases, the path to powershell.exe is in the PATH environment variable, and the ExecutionPolicy is set to RemoteSigned by default.
From Microsoft TechNet the following solution is suggested
$output=shell_exec('powershell -noprofile -command "&{ start-process powershell -ArgumentList -noprofile -file E:\XAMPP_DV\htdocs\project\lib\pwdreset.ps1 ' . $user . ' ' . $pwd . ' -verb RunAs}"');
I am attempting to write a script which automatically unzips 7zip archives. I'm able to get the command to run from the command prompt, but it doesn't work when running from within the php script.
Here's what I have in terms of code:
$filefolder = "F:/dev/";
$filename = "archive.7z";
$filepath = $filefolder . $filename;
$unzip = "cmd /c 7z x " . $filePath . " -o" . $fileFolder . " -spf";
print_r($unzip . "<br>"); //checking to make sure the command is formed correctly
exec($unzip, $outcome, $rtnStatus);
print_r($outcome);
print_r($rtnStatus);
The following is returned for $outcome and $rtnStatus:
Array ( )
1
What am I missing here?
I have a php script that builds a dynamic command string (calls a perl script), then executes the command, like this:
$cmd_string = "perl $pushFile";
foreach($cmd_args AS $argName => $arg){
$cmd_string .= ' --' . $argName . '="' . $arg . '"';
}
$output = shell_exec('export PERL5LIB=/mnt/path/to/custom:$PERL5LIB && ' . $cmd_string . ' 2>&1');
I am getting failures that I think are being caused by interpolation of some of the arguments. For example is one of the arguments is '246+8GT>-', it gets turned into '246 8GT ' and an error that the string is unterminated. But, if I print_r $cmd_string to the screen and execute it via command line, or copy/paste it into the $cmd_string variable, it executes properly. I am stumped. How can I make sure these arguments are being passed properly? I tried this:
$output = shell_exec('export PERL5LIB=/mnt/path/to/custom:$PERL5LIB && ' . escapeshellcmd($cmd_string) . ' 2>&1');
but get the same result. Help?
You are escaping the comamand string, after it has been built.
Try this:
$cmd_string = "perl $pushFile";
foreach($cmd_args AS $argName => $arg){
$cmd_string .= ' --' . $argName . '="' . escapeshellarg($arg) . '"';
}
$output = shell_exec('export PERL5LIB=/mnt/path/to/custom:$PERL5LIB && ' . $cmd_string . ' 2>&1');
I'm using a Linux local computer and need to backup/mirror some very large file structures regularly. I only have access to SFTP.
I was after a simple one click solution. I originally tried to write the little script in BASH but I've never used it before and am not up to scratch with the syntax so I resorted to PHP. (I do understand PHP is not designed for this kind of work, but I'm on a tight time scale and don't have the time to get into BASH atm)
<?php
//init
parse_str(implode('&', array_slice($argv, 1)), $_GET);
$error = array();
$lPrefix = '/home/hozza/Sites/';
$archiveLocation = '/home/hozza/Backups/';
$lDir = isset($_GET['l']) ? $_GET['l'] : $error[] = 'Local Directory Required';
$rDir = isset($_GET['r']) ? $_GET['r'] : $error[] = 'Remote Directory Required';
$bookmark = isset($_GET['b']) ? $_GET['b'] : $error[] = 'lftp Bookmark Required';
//Check for args
if(count($error) == 0) {
$archiveName = end(explode('/', $lDir)) . '_' . date('Y-m-d_H-i');
//Validate local dir
if(is_dir($lPrefix . $lDir)) {
//preserve Sublime Text 2 config SFTP files
$ST2_SFTP_conf = false;
if(file_exists($lPrefix . $lDir . '/sftp-config.json')) {
$ST2_SFTP_conf = file_get_contents($lPrefix . $lDir . '/sftp-config.json');
unlink($lPrefix . $lDir . '/sftp-config.json');
}
//Start mirror
$lftOutput = explode("\n", shell_exec('lftp -e "mirror -e -p --parallel=10 --log=' . $archiveLocation . 'logs/' . $archiveName . '.txt ' . $rDir . '/ ' . $lPrefix . $lDir . '/; exit top" ' . $bookmark));
//Tar regardless of lftp error or success
$tarOutput = shell_exec('cd ' . $lPrefix . ' && tar -czf ' . $archiveLocation . $archiveName . '.tar.gz ' . $lDir);
//Output completion or errors
shell_exec('notify-send -i gnome-network-properties -t 0 "Mirror & Archive Complete" "' . $archiveName . '\n\n' . implode('\n', $lftOutput) . $tarOutput . '"');
//put back ST2 SFTP conf
if($ST2_SFTP_conf != false) file_put_contents($lPrefix . $lDir . '/sftp-config.json', $ST2_SFTP_conf);
exit;
}
else shell_exec('notify-send -i error -t 0 "Mirror & Archive Error" "' . date('Y-m-d') . ' ' . date('H-i') . '\n' . $lDir . ' \n Does not exist! D:"');
}
else shell_exec('notify-send -i error -t 0 "Mirror & Archive Error" "' . date('Y-m-d') . ' ' . date('H-i') . '\n' . implode('\n', $error) . '"');
?>
It can be run for many sites via a short-cut like so...
terminator -T "Mirror & Archive" -e "php ~/Programs/mirror.php l=local-dir_path r=./ b=lftp-bookmark-name"
If no password is in the LFTP bookmark (there shouldn’t be as it's stored in plain text) the terminal prompts for a password, after the script has run, a nice notification is given with some info about files/folders/speed etc.
However, when the script is running in a terminal, only the "input password" bit is output to the terminal, I would like all the output displayed in the terminal (normally that would display what file/folder is currently working with etc.)
Anyone know how to do that?
IIRC the reason that you see the password prompt output to the terminal is that it is using stderr. You could try redirecting stdout to stderr for your commands which should show you the 'real-time' progress. Tack this on to the end of the shell_exec() command: 1>&2
ie:
shell_exec('lftp -e "mirror -e -p --parallel=10 --log=' . $archiveLocation . 'logs/' . $archiveName . '.txt ' . $rDir . '/ ' . $lPrefix . $lDir . '/; exit top" ' . $bookmark . ' 1>&2')
However, this will preclude you from having anything returned by shell_exec for logging purposes. What I would suggest is something like:
$log_stem = '/tmp/' . time() . '_'; // ie: /tmp/1357581737_
$lfOutfile = $log_stem . 'lftp.log';
$tarOutfile = $log_stem . 'tar.log';
shell_exec('lftp -blah | tee ' . $lfOutfile ' 1>&2' );
shell_exec('tar -blah | tee ' . $tarOutfile ' 1>&2' );
$lfOut = file_get_contents($lfOutfile);
$tarOut = file_get_contetns(tarOutfile);
// remove tmp files
unlink($lfOutfile);
unlink($tarOutfile);
Which will capture a copy of the output to a file before redirecting the output to stderr so you can watch it live.
However, if you want to run this via cron I would recommend against writing anything to stderr that is not an error, otherwise cron will send a warning email every time it is run.
I think the last answer was close:
Either this:
shell_exec('lftp -blah |& tee ' . $lfOutfile );
shell_exec('tar -blah |& tee ' . $tarOutfile );
Or if that still doesn't work try this:
shell_exec('lftp -blah 2>&1 | tee ' . $lfOutfile );
shell_exec('tar -blah 2>&1 | tee ' . $tarOutfile );