What is changing my line breaks?

Question

I am trying to read some binary data from a command line tool with PHP on Windows. Initially the tool was git show, but I can reproduce the problem with type as well (to make sure there is no Git autocrlf happening).

I am not sure what is going on, but somewhere on the way the line endings seem to be converted. Observe...

On the command line:

# dir temp
18.01.2015  03:24             1.362 temp

In PHP:

$data = `type d:\\temp`;
echo strlen($data);                            // outputs "1302"
echo strlen(str_replace("\n", "\r\n", $data)); // outputs "1362"
echo strlen(file_get_contents('d:\\temp'));    // outputs "1362"

What is going on? How can I get the verbatim data?

Oleg Dubas · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-18T02:48:48.730

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The file_get_contents() will get you the verbatim data, binary safe. Avoid OS-specific things like type you used.

Try using other methods instead of backticks, like passthru for example:

ob_start();
passthru("git command blah blah");
$var = ob_get_clean();
echo strlen($var);

edited Jan 18 '15 at 02:48

answered Jan 18 '15 at 02:42

Oleg Dubas

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There is no file. It's the output from *git show* that I want. – AndreKR Jan 18 '15 at 02:44
@AndreKR, you should have told this straight at the beginning. I've updated the answer. – Oleg Dubas Jan 18 '15 at 02:49

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 18 '15 at 02:49

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A workaround I found is this:

ob_start();
passthru('type d:\\temp');
$data = ob_get_clean();

answered Jan 18 '15 at 02:49

AndreKR

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What is changing my line breaks?

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