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title: 'You can use backticks (``) to execute a shell command in PHP'
tweet_id: '1596508354536304640'
thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-35
author_username: freekmurze
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created_at: 2022-11-26T14:17:08+00:00
slug: 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