Executing Shell Scripts in PHP

Hi,

I am wondering if anyone on this list has made attempts of executing shel=
l scripts using PHP.
Here is the code:


$command =3D "gcc -o hello.c";
exec($command);

?>

So far, the actual program is something simple that prints out Hello, Wor=
ld. I have tried using

// create a new cURL resource

$ch =3D curl_init();

// set URL and other appropriate options

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "http://localhost/hello.c");

curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, false);

All I got is the actual code content that is in one single long string. As =
for using the PHP snippet I have at the beginning of the email, all I get i=
s a blank page, although it does not give me errors of the actual PHP progr=
am. Could anyone please tell me what problem I might be having here?

Anything is appreciated.

Alice
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Alice Wei
MIS 2009
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University Bloomington
ajwei@indiana.edu

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