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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Running shell scripts from web browser Post 302082198 by System Shock on Monday 31st of July 2006 05:02:32 PM
Old 07-31-2006
I'm sure you can find plenty of tutorials on cgi on the web, although I don't know about tutorials using shell scripts; most use perl, asp, etc... anyway, continuing with the example above, forgot to mention that the form passes the variable NAME to myscript.cgi as a string, not as a variable. It's an important difference because myscript.cgi needs to read the string and make it a variable.

Let me tell you what myscript.cgi does, so you'll get a better idea, and can use it as a base for what you want to do. A user goes to the web page, and enters an ID. This ID is going to be appended to an access file to allow the user WAP access to several web applications.
myscript.cgi looks something like this:

Code:
#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo "content-type: text/plain"
echo
read USERID?   ## this reads the NAME variable passed by the web form
echo ${USERID} > /opt/apache/htdocs/application/temp/userID
NEWID=$(sed 's/NAME=//' /opt/apache/htdocs/application/temp/userID) ## this cleans the string that was passed by the form
echo ${NEWID} by ADMIN  >> /opt/apache/htdocs/application/access.dat.req  ## access.dat.req is read by a cronjob every night

## This part will actually generate a web page that will inform the user that  his/her ID was submitted

echo "<html> <body BGCOLOR="#000000" TEXT="#ddd20f">"
echo "<FONT FACE="Trebuchet MS">"
echo "<center><p><big>userID ${NEWID} has been recorded</big><br>"
echo "</p>"
echo "userIDs submitted before 7:00PM ET are<BR>"
echo " activated the same day after 9:00PM ET<BR>"
echo "<BR>"
echo "For any issues with this tool, please open <BR>"
echo " a ticket in the application queue<BR>"
echo "</FONT>"
echo "</center></body></html>"

I don't know how big your csv files are, or how you want to display them, or what data is input by the web user. However, these snippets show you how to get data from the web form, how to run commands based on that data, and how to display the processed data immediately on your web browser after the data has been processed. At its most basic, you could make a variable like myCSV=$(cat file.csv), then

echo opening html tags,
echo ${myCSV}
echo closing html tags

and that should display your csv on the web.

Oh, and before I forget, you may have to tweak the script depending what browser you use. I did this one for corporate, so it works with IE, and the mozilla browser that come with Solaris 10 (which I use ). I didn't test it for any other browsers.

Last edited by System Shock; 07-31-2006 at 06:15 PM..
 

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