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Old 02-16-2005
Passing FORM(HTML) variable to ksh
I am currently able to use the $QUERY_STRING variable and simply cut out what I need to be assigned as variables within the shell script. However, I've been able to use the "name" value assigned within the FORM(HTML) as a variable when I use perl. Why is it that ksh doesn't read the "name" in as a variable as perl does? Am I missing something? If the above seems confusing, here is an example of what's happening:

HTML
HTML Code:
<form action="../ksh.cgi" input="text" name="var1"></form>
#!/bin/ksh
Code:
echo "$QUERY_STRING"

name=(input text)

Code:
echo "$var1"

(blank)

Shouldn't the value entered into the textbox on the webpage be passed to the shell script as "$var1"?

ps. The reason why I'm avoiding perl for this task is due to the numerous scripts written in ksh that can use input from a browser.
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Old 02-25-2005
Not completely sure what you are trying to do. If you are looking to assign the query string to a variable in your ksh script, then do something like:
var1="$QUERY_STRING"

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