Configure shell commands, like mysqldump

[amenk]

I have a host where I have to use mysqldump5 (for accessing mysql 5) instead of mysqldump. Would be cool, if the shell names can be passed or configured.

Is there a workaround?
What do you think?

[amenk]

We call several commands

• mysql
• mysqldump
• gzip
• pv
• tar

I think we should make them configurable using the config files like

CommandAliases
   mysqldump: mysqldump5

[ktomk]

You should be able to do this via an alias. The system should ship with all configuration options needed for this.

[amenk]

the point is that mysqldump5 is already an alias which I want to use.

[ktomk]

Just learning, it's not that straight forward. Can you check which shell is used by your PHP version?

$ php -r 'echo shell_exec("echo $0");'

In my case it is sh but I needed bash.

Most likely your alias won't work with the suggestion. You could eval with --only-command perhaps.

[amenk]

sh for me as well - acutally my host is switching from mysqldump5 to mysqldump - so not high prio for me any more. But still it would be good to be able to configure the commands used in Magerun - not in the shell. Currently mysqldump is just hardcoded - is not a problem to make it configurable and thus magerun more compatible. On the other hand I don't know if anybody hat this problem yet.

[tkn98]

Well in your concrete case, it would have not helped you because there would have been no alias then when magerun exec'utes the (aliased) command.

Perhaps switching to the Process component helps here. Another ticket should exist for it, at least for review. (#796)