On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, [ISO-8859-1] André Medeiros wrote: > $cmd = 'scp ' . $user . '@stagingcws.' . $tld . ':' . $directory/{' . > $files . '} ' . $tmp_dir . '/'; > > That should work > > On 6/27/05, b-bonini@xxxxxxx <b-bonini@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Can not make this work inside a php script. > > > > Have tried several variations: > > $cmd = "scp $user@stagingcws.$tld:$directory/\{$files} $tmp_dir/."; > > > > $cmd = "scp $user@stagingcws.$tld:$directory/" . '{' . $files . '} ' . "$tmp_dir/."; > > > > etc... > > > > I can echo out the command and get a well formed command, i.e. one that will execute from a command prompt, but when I try to exec() $cmd from within the script the globbing is taken literally. > > No, I already tried it that way too. I guess I should mention this is a cli script if that matters. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php