PHP – How to get Shell errors echoed out to screen

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The error data is output from the target program’s STDERR stream. You can get access to the error data through the normal returned string from shell_exec() by appending 2>&1 to the command, which will redirect STDERR to STDOUT, the stream that you are currently seeing:

var_dump(shell_exec("ffmpeg -i /var/www/html/sitedomain/httpdocs/tmp/ebev1177.mp4 2>&1"));

You may also want to take a look at proc_open() which will allow you to get access to STDIN, STDOUT and STDERR as three individual streams, which can afford much finer grained control over the target program and exactly how you handle the input and output to it, including redirecting any and all of them directly to a log file if so desired. Be aware though that this is a much more complex mechanism with many pitfalls and tripping hazards.

More information on the standard streams can be found here.

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