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

this worked for me: Append 2>&1 to the end of your command.

Seen here: php exec() not returning error message in output when executing svn command

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