Thank you. As near as I can tell, though, the relevant environments are the same (I'm self-taught though, so that may not be saying much).

With the variables expanded, the command line looks like this, whether called from system() or from the commandline:

/usr/bin/zip -D /var/apache2/htdocs/appspace/output/test.zip /var/apac
+he2/htdocs/appspace/output/*.[Mm][Ii][Ff] 1>>/var/apache2/htdocs/apps
+pace/log/job.log 2>>/var/apache2/htdocs/appspace/log/error.log

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I run both the command line and the script in /var/apache2/cgi-bin, and both run as "root". Moreover, the behavior is identical on my Mac OS X laptop and on a remote Solaris 11 server. I am using the same "zip" in each case, as nearly as I can tell:

# which zip
/usr/bin/zip

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Is there some shell variable that might affect this other than which executable shell points to in each case?

In reply to Re^2: Why doesn't system("zip -D") exclude directories? by YuTsun
in thread Why doesn't system("zip -D") exclude directories? by YuTsun

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