The output of the command will be printed as an array and each value of the output array will be printed by using the ‘for’ loop. $status variable is used to store the return status value of the executed command. $output variable is used here to store the output of the command in an array. A command-line application and Perl library for reading and writing EXIF, GPS, IPTC, XMP, makernotes and other meta information in image, audio and video. ‘ ls -l‘ command is used in the first argument that returns the list of directories. ExifTool is a free and open-source software program for reading, writing, and manipulating image, audio, video, and PDF metadata. Two optional arguments of exec() are used in this script. Create a PHP file with the following script. The following example shows the use of optional arguments of the exec() function. Example, given this tree f for the current directory, then running the above command, gives the end result: X:temptest>tree /f Folder PATH listing for volume Data Volume serial number is 00000200 1CFF. In the previous example, no optional argument is used in the exec() function. Now if I run this command, exiftool '-directoryls -la‘ command returns the details information of the list of directories and the second output shows the last line from the command output.Įxample-2: Print all values of the executed command ‘ pwd‘ command returns the current working directory as output that is shown in the first output.

The following output will appear after running the above script from the server. Store the last line of the executed command

Result exiftool command