Grep

[renedocherty]

Hi,
Im needing to do a grep on a local file store. The problem is that the way I am currently doing it does not allow me to manipulate the output:
<?
$command = "grep \"".$text."\" /home/httpd/html/ -r -H -n";

$pants=passthru($command);
?>
This just streams it to the screen. I need a way to do the grep then eventually get the contents into some form of array. Any suggestions?

Rene

[alanl]

exec

[renedocherty]

Corrent me if i am wrong, but doesn't exec only retun the last line of output from the executed program?

I have tried this aswell and it didn't seem to work....

thanks
Rene

[alanl]

Ok, use:

exec('grep blah',$output);

for($x=0;$x<count($output),$x++)
{
echo $output[x];
}

Cheers,
ALan

[renedocherty]

Thanks alot for your help,
Rene