Title: error escapeshellcmd
Last modified: December 11, 2017

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# error escapeshellcmd

 *  [tartarbar](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tartarbar/)
 * (@tartarbar)
 * [8 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-escapeshellcmd/)
 * Hello, plugin not work on Debian 4.9.2, error in php function escapeshellcmd()
   if file has symbols like “(“, for example /var/www/vhosts/mysite/httpdocs/wp-
   content/uploads/2017/12/test_(mysite).avi after escapeshellcmd,
    /var/www/vhosts/
   mysite/httpdocs/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/test_\(mysite\).avi. Exec return “
   No such file or directory”.

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 *  Plugin Author [Kyle Gilman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kylegilman/)
 * (@kylegilman)
 * [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-escapeshellcmd/#post-9828537)
 * I don’t think it’s a good security idea to allow parentheses in shell commands
   which is why I run escapeshellcmd in the first place. Usually WordPress renames
   files like that and replaces special characters with underscores. Are you using
   Add From Server?

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 * Last activity: [8 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-escapeshellcmd/#post-9828537)
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