php - Keep bash shell functions between shell_exec() requests

Solution:

There is a way to maintain a single bash shell, execute commands and handle the return. I recently published a project that allows PHP to obtain and interact with a real Bash shell. Get it here: https://github.com/merlinthemagic/MTS

I would suggest not triggering a bash script but rather trigger the induvidual commands. That way you can handle the return and not have to build exception handling in bash.

After downloading you would simply use the following code:

//get a real bash shell.
$shell    = \MTS\Factories::getDevices()->getLocalHost()->getShell('bash', false);

$return1  = $shell->exeCmd($command1);
//logic to handle the return

$return2  = $shell->exeCmd($command2);
//logic to handle the return
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..... etc

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