Why doesn't this SIMPLE code work?

[JonBlockBoston]

When I run the following command, it works great...

ls "/searchdir/xmlcontent/349" | head

I put the code above in a shell script, execute it as root, and it still works great.

I need to call it from PHP as root. In my PHP code, I do this:

shell_exec("/bin/bash myshellscript");

However, when I do it from PHP, I get:

ls: write error: Broken pipe

What should I do?
Jon

[dalecosp]

[man]shell_exec/man returns a string, so you must print it:

<?php

$foo=shell_exec("ls /dir | head");

echo $foo;

?>

You could also use system(), if that's allowed.

HTH,