How to call a bash script from php passing parameters

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Published on 2010-05-13T10:34:26Z Indexed on 2010/05/13 10:44 UTC
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I have a php script that execute a bash script. I try to pass parameters like this:

$script="/opt/lampp/htdocs/adapt.sh"
$file="/opt/lampp/htdocs/videos/video1.mp4"
$prefix="Test"

exec ('.$script.' '.$file.' '.$prefix.');

What's wrong? How can I pass the parameters?

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