#ls -l /tmp | grep "\.c" using shell_exec

[graziano]

Hello,

I am trying to execute a php shell_exec command to list c files on my /tmp dir

from command line

ls -l /tmp | grep ".c"

works fine .. reporting

-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 0 Jun 3 06:09 test.c
-rw------- 1 nobody nobody 0 Jun 3 06:09 test2.c

using php

<?
$checkc= shell_exec('ls -l /tmp | grep "\.c" 2>&1');  

echo "<br>$checkc";
?>

$checkc returns nothing ...

any help ?

Thank you

[thessoro]

your exact code works fine to me, executing the script from command-line and from a browser... so it's not the code itself, maybe some misconfiguration...
the only difference i could find it's that you're root when writting this command, and it's highly probable (and advisable) that you're running your browser as a user... this could make the difference.