PHP Powershell command

Question

Trying to run the following command in php to run powershell command...

the following works:

$output = shell_exec(escapeshellcmd(\'powershell get-ser         


        

Answer 1

'powershell get-service | group-object'

will be interpreted as

1. run powershell and pass it get-service as an argument
2. then pipe the output of powershell to group_object (i.e. not the output of get-service)

What you want is for powershell to see get-service | group-object as it's argument, so you have to enclose that in quotes, like this.

 $output = shell_exec('powershell "get-service | group-object"');