How to retrieve PHP exec() error responses?

Question

Below is the command I tried executing, without success:

exec(\'ln -s \' . PLUGIN_DIR . \'/.htaccess \' . ABSPATH . \'/.htaccess\');

When y

Answer 1

You can receive the output result of the exec function by passing an optional second parameter:

exec('ln -s ' . PLUGIN_DIR . '/.htaccess ' . ABSPATH . '/.htaccess',$output);
var_dump($output);