Formatting System command Output

[Anon]

Hello,
How would I get the output of a system command to print to the screen in a formated way.
For instance if I run the code below.
echo $domain = system("ls /home/mike");
I get a a large string without a clustered together without line breaks between each line.
I would like the output to look like below.
file1
file2
file3
Instead of:
file1file2file3
Any help would be apprecieated.
Thanks
Mike

[Anon]

You'll have to split the output into seperate vars and print them in a formatted way:

execute command an capture output

$dir=ls -al;

split output into lines

$aLines=preg_split("/\n/",$dir);

Loop through each line

for ($t=0;$t<count($aLines);$t++)
{

split the line into words (split around 1+ whitespaces)

$aLineParts=preg_split("/\s+/",$aLines[$t]);

# print word 8, the filename on unix machines
echo $aLineParts[8]."\n";

};

[yelvington]

Or, if the 'ls' output is satisfactory,

<pre>
<?echo ls; ?>
</pre>

[Anon]

Or without the PRE tags:

echo nl2br(ls);