ktsirig

Hi all!
I am confused as to how an old-good UNIX command, like

cat text.txt > new_tex.txt

can be used in PHP.
I tried
system (" cat text.txt > new_text.txt");

but it didn't work, the file new_text.txt was left blank.
Am I doing something wrong with the > ???
Must I use something else instead of 'system' ?

Mocker

try cat text.txt | new_text.txt

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Dizzutch

why don't you use fopen, fread and fwrite to read and write from a file, it's more 'php' that way.

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Lich

agreed. just make sure you have permissions on your directory right first

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DaWei

Why?

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Mocker

Because I dont know what i'm talking about. What? is that not a good reason?

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DaWei

Fine for the lounge. It's better not to just toss out misleading and undiluted junk in a technical thread. Pipes and redirection aren't the same thing.

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Pizentios

> is to write over any data in the file, while >> is to apend the data to the end of the file.

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