exec function not returning all rows

Question

My awk command works as expected and returns 2 lines at command prompt.

When I use php \"exec\" function, it returns only the second line.

echo exec(         


        

Answer 1

If the output argument is present, then the specified array will be filled with every line of output from the command. Trailing whitespace, such as \n, is not included in this array. Note that if the array already contains some elements, exec() will append to the end of the array. If you do not want the function to append elements, call unset() on the array before passing it to exec().

http://php.net/manual/en/function.exec.php

$out = array();
exec("awk -v RS=\",\" '/some_text/' test1.html", $out);
foreach($out as $line) {
    echo $line;
}