Wait for shell command to finish?

[dyluck]

Hi There

 

I have made a lot of progress so far from everyone's help.  Thanks

I have a question.  I have a simple unzip shell command  shell_exec("unzip $zip_file");

What happens is the rest of the php script continues to run to start parsing the extracted file and ends up running before the extraction is finished. 

I get a: Warning: filesize() [function.filesize]: stat failed for blaa.txt  error right after the file has been extracted.

 

What do you recommend I do?  Is there a way to pause the rest of the script until it is confirmed that the zip is complete?

 

Thanks,

[trq]

The script should automatically wait for shell_exec to finish as it is.

[dyluck]

The script should automatically wait for shell_exec to finish as it is.

Hi thanks for the reply.

 

So, not sure why, but if I run the exact same check file size code on a different file it works fine.

 

[RussellReal]

the original file you're trying to work with is PROBABLY an invalid file.. thus the shell_exec fails to unzip it and then the rest of your code then continues..

[dyluck]

the original file you're trying to work with is PROBABLY an invalid file.. thus the shell_exec fails to unzip it and then the rest of your code then continues..

Sorry, let me rephrase my statement.  The file unzipps fine.  Its the code I use to check the unzipped file that works fine when ran from a different php file then when run from the same script that just finished unzipping it.