The button and the code will actually be different pages, because when you click the button, that loads a separate, independent webpage, see? Each time you interact with CGI, it's a fresh page. The only things which come with it are things you put in every time.
Have your form load a PHP page with this in it:
I'm sorry, I guess I need to add two more things I forgot...
I need user "bots" to run this (password auth is off, have to use key for authentication), and if possible, it should check to see if the file/bot is already running and if it is, either return an error or kill the process. Is this possible to add to that code that was provided?
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Is anyone able to help now that I've given a few more specifics? I'm not quite sure how to do this, thanks!
i have to point out that i'm a avid shell script lover and i have next to zero interest in perl which is why i dont know the first thing about it. however, just need to do this one thing on it..
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Hi guys
Im in the process of designing a website for my company which does the following
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Hello,
I was trying to run a shell script when I click on webpage link. My webpage is hosted on Sun One web server.
This is something I was looking,
Chris Johnson's Test Bed
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Hey experts,
I am trying to read a webpage and want to search for a text patter (case insensitive). Please help me acquire this.
If the text is found i will receive a mail which can be hardcoded in the script.
I am not a big fan of using PERL script.
Please help.
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<html>
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Hello ,
I am trying to execute a small shell script from a PHP Webpage.
Below is the shell script : 1.sh
$ cat /home/oracle/rahul/1.sh
#!/bin/ksh
echo "`date` : Report generation in progress" > /home/oracle/rahul/report.txt
echo "Run successfully script";
Below is the PHP... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
shell-quote
SHELL-QUOTE(1p) User Contributed Perl Documentation SHELL-QUOTE(1p)NAME
shell-quote - quote arguments for safe use, unmodified in a shell command
SYNOPSIS
shell-quote [switch]... arg...
DESCRIPTION
shell-quote lets you pass arbitrary strings through the shell so that they won't be changed by the shell. This lets you process commands
or files with embedded white space or shell globbing characters safely. Here are a few examples.
EXAMPLES
ssh preserving args
When running a remote command with ssh, ssh doesn't preserve the separate arguments it receives. It just joins them with spaces and
passes them to "$SHELL -c". This doesn't work as intended:
ssh host touch 'hi there' # fails
It creates 2 files, hi and there. Instead, do this:
cmd=`shell-quote touch 'hi there'`
ssh host "$cmd"
This gives you just 1 file, hi there.
process find output
It's not ordinarily possible to process an arbitrary list of files output by find with a shell script. Anything you put in $IFS to
split up the output could legitimately be in a file's name. Here's how you can do it using shell-quote:
eval set -- `find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 shell-quote --`
debug shell scripts
shell-quote is better than echo for debugging shell scripts.
debug() {
[ -z "$debug" ] || shell-quote "debug:" "$@"
}
With echo you can't tell the difference between "debug 'foo bar'" and "debug foo bar", but with shell-quote you can.
save a command for later
shell-quote can be used to build up a shell command to run later. Say you want the user to be able to give you switches for a command
you're going to run. If you don't want the switches to be re-evaluated by the shell (which is usually a good idea, else there are
things the user can't pass through), you can do something like this:
user_switches=
while [ $# != 0 ]
do
case x$1 in
x--pass-through)
[ $# -gt 1 ] || die "need an argument for $1"
user_switches="$user_switches "`shell-quote -- "$2"`
shift;;
# process other switches
esac
shift
done
# later
eval "shell-quote some-command $user_switches my args"
OPTIONS --debug
Turn debugging on.
--help
Show the usage message and die.
--version
Show the version number and exit.
AVAILABILITY
The code is licensed under the GNU GPL. Check http://www.argon.org/~roderick/ or CPAN for updated versions.
AUTHOR
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
perl v5.8.4 2005-05-03 SHELL-QUOTE(1p)