popen
Opens a pipe to a process executed by forking the command given by command.
Parameters
- command
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The command
- mode
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The mode. Either 'r' for reading, or 'w' for writing.
On Windows, popen defaults to text mode, i.e. any \n characters written to or read from the pipe will be translated to \r\n. If this is not desired, binary mode can be enforced by setting mode to 'rb' and 'wb', respectively.
Return Values
Returns a file pointer identical to that returned by fopen, except that it is unidirectional (may only be used for reading or writing) and must be closed with pclose. This pointer may be used with fgets, fgetss, and fwrite. When the mode is 'r', the returned file pointer equals to the STDOUT of the command, when the mode is 'w', the returned file pointer equals to the STDIN of the command.
If an error occurs, returns false.
Notes
Note:
If you're looking for bi-directional support (two-way), use proc_open.