Linux like script level exec command on windows xampp

[optimisticwalker]

How to execute windows command in a PHP script in a similar way we do on linux?

For example, to copy file from one directory to another we can execute the linux find & cp command directly into a PHP script like,

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<?php
exec("find E:/xampp/htdocs/site.com/image/ -name test.png -exec cp  {} E:/xampp/htdocs/site.com/thumb/\;");
?>

On the other hand to copy file through windows command prompt we use,

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E:\xampp\htdocs\site.com\image> copy test.png E:\xampp\htdocs\site.com\thumb

but the above command isn't working in script level execution when it is executed as,

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<?php
exec("E:\xampp\htdocs\site.com\image> copy test.png E:\xampp\htdocs\site.com\thumb");
?>

How to execute windows command in php script level in this case?

exec is enabled on my xampp.

Thanks,

[optimisticwalker]

Just mixed up the command with linux bash and included the output of cd command subconsciously in exec function.

Developers who are trying to replace linux command with windows using exec() or shell_exec() function on localhost for testing purpose must use backslash for all directory related commands in their script though forward slash is well recognized by many other PHP functions, methods & classes on localhost.

However, the command for copying file from one directory to another using root relative url like linux on windows shall be,

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<?php
exec("copy E:\xampp\htdocs\site.com\image\test.png  E:\xampp\htdocs\site.com\thumb");
?>

To check the output of exec in their scripts, developer can use two optional arguments like,

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<?php
exec("copy E:\xampp\htdocs\site.com\image\test.png  E:\xampp\htdocs\site.com\thumb", $output_in_an_array, $execution_status);

echo '<pre>';
var_dump($output_in_an_array);
echo '<pre>';
echo '<br>';
echo '<pre>';
var_dump($execution_status);
echo '<pre>';
?>

$output_in_an_array displays the command output in a numeric array whereas $execution_status returns integer as command successful or unsuccessful status. if $execution_status returns int(0) command was executed successfully. If it returns int(1) command was unsuccessful.

More details at: http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

Thanks,