You can use backticks (``) to execute a shell command in PHP

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You can use backticks (``) to execute a shell command in PHP

🐘 Can you believe I didn’t know that PHP has a backtick operator?

Anything between `` will be executed like shell_exec and returned 🤯

Docs: https://www.php.net/manual/en/language.operators.execution.php

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