In your example, the problem is that the name has spaces, which the
shell uses as a delimiter. So "That Won't Move/" is kind of being
considered parameters instead of part of the dir. Using the command
line (i.e. shell/terminal) will give you more feedback as to what is
happening (/some/dir/Dir: No such Directory).
You need to either escape the characters or enclose it in quotes. For
me, I always find it easier to just enclose directory names in quotes.
$source_dir = '"/some/dir/Dir That Won't Move/"';
On Oct 12, 2005, at 10:11 PM, -k. wrote:
I'm having trouble moving some directories. My script works fine on
some directories but doesn't
move others. It seems to have trouble with directories with non
alphanumeric charters. I'm running
Red Hat FC2. I'm trying to move the directory basically like this...
<?Php
$source_dir = '/some/dir/Dir That Won't Move/';
$dest_dir = '/some/other/dir/'
$cmd = escapeshellcmd("mv ".$source_dir." ".$dest_dir);
$result = shell_exec($cmd);
?>
Is there some way to escape the characters in the directories? For
example if i put a "\" in front
of blank spaces it takes care of those (same for "'","(" etc.) but
that obviously doesn't take
care of everything. I'm hoping there is something easy i'm
overlooking here that will escape all
the characters.
-k.
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