LXIX. Program Execution functions

Those functions provides means to executes commands on the system itself, and means secure such commands. Those functions are also closely related to the backtick operator.

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escapeshellarg -- escape a string to be used as a shell argument
escapeshellcmd -- escape shell metacharacters
exec -- Execute an external program
passthru --  Execute an external program and display raw output
system -- Execute an external program and display output