Shell Programming and Scripting

exec('scriptname.php'); # execute the script then exit
system('scriptname.php'); # Fork and wait while the child executes the script
my $output=`scriptname.php` # Fork and wait while the child executes the script then set the contents of $output to the output of the script

#!/usr/bin/perl
exec('/d01/user/sample.php');

<?php
echo "testing";
?>

/d01/user/sample.php: line 1: ?php: No such file or directory
testing
/d01/user/sample.php: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
/d01/user/sample.php: line 3: `?>'

#!/usr/bin/php