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Function: escapeshellcmd (PHP 3, PHP 4, PHP 5) escapeshellcmd -- Escape shell metacharactersDescriptionstring escapeshellcmd ( string command )escapeshellcmd() escapes any characters in a string that might be used to trick a shell command into executing arbitrary commands. This function should be used to make sure that any data coming from user input is escaped before this data is passed to the exec() or system() functions, or to the backtick operator . Parameters
command The command that will be escaped. Return ValuesThe escaped string. Examples
Example 1. escapeshellcmd() example <?php $e = escapeshellcmd($userinput); // here we don't care if $e has spaces system("echo $e"); $f = escapeshellcmd($filename); // and here we do, so we use quotes system("touch \"/tmp/$f\"; ls -l \"/tmp/$f\""); ?> Related Function(s) |