[PHP-DEV] Bug #11767 Updated: Bad escape sequence From: veins <email protected>
Date: 06/29/01

ID: 11767
User Update by: veins <email protected>
Status: Open
Bug Type: Program Execution
Operating system: Unix
PHP Version: 4.0.6
Description: Bad escape sequence

Previous Comments:
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[2001-06-28 02:27:48] veins <email protected>
When safe_mode is set to On, it is impossible to pass a variable that contains a string with a space in it as an argument to any system() like function. The following script shows the problem:

<?
   $somevar = "this is a test";
   exec("echo.sh $somevar", $return);
   echo $return[0];
?>

echo.sh being a simple shell script that echoes back anything that we feed it. The following PHP script will display 'this' instead of 'this is a test'. I tried backslashing every chars of the variable by writing a simple function but spaces seems not to be correctly passed to the shell script. The same script executed when safe_mode is set to off works perfectly...

Veins - Veins <email protected>

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