One important thing to keep in mind with CGI. It doesn't run as you, it runs as the web server's user. Which means a CGI script doesn't -- AND SHOULDN'T! -- have permissions to write to the current folder, whatever it happens to be. You should create a file in a known writable location, like /tmp/$$-query.txt or some such. $$ is the script's PID, which is a quick and dirty way of getting a unique file name. (Once you have stuff working, see mktemp for a fancier, safer option.) And yes, you'll need to delete the file when you're done!
What's 'echo cat' for? If you want to cat, run cat. But you don't actually need cat here, grep (and most other commands) is fully capable of reading files without cat's help.
Also, you should be putting variables inside double quotes, and not putting * inside double quotes.
Lastly, does your web server have read-access to /opt/SUNWappserver/nodeagents/ins1/logs/* ? It'll need it.
Hi,
I'm developing a system which requires me to run a ksh script from within a cgi script. What sort of syntax will I need to do this, I'm sure it's simple but can't find out how anywhere!
Thanks. (2 Replies)
Hey - I am new to cgi scripting... just writing a script to output df -k output to html page... but I cannot get the df lines on separate lines on the page, it all comes out on one line and is not very readable.. any suggestions?
My script is below - please keep in mind I am only new to it so... (1 Reply)
hii, i have a cgi script file which may take some hours to complete. The script logs the output and mails the user. so the browser need not be open for the output. But currently the script dies off the instant the browser is closed or other pages are viewed. Is there a way out .. ?
i have... (0 Replies)
Hi,
I'm learning some simple cgi scripting. I can make a script like this,
so my browser shows "Hello World"
/www/cgi-bin/name.sh
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#!/bin/sh
MyName=World
echo "<html> Hello $MyName </html>"
---
What I'd like is to have a separate html and script files in the cgi folder so ... (1 Reply)
Hi
I know how to pass data from client side (html file) to server using CGI script (POST method).
I also know how to re-create the html page from server side after receiving the data (using printf).
However I want to write static pages on client side (only the structure), and only to pass... (0 Replies)
hi there
im currently in the process of creating a website for use basically within our org. im using a os x machine and installed MAMP - which includes Apache, mysql... the site will be used by techs to primarily install pkgs files onto os x devices. i would like to have buttons or hyperlinks... (2 Replies)
Hi team,
I have a typical problem with cgi pages in apache webserver in WINDOWS
I am able to execute(display) the pages that are saved in cgi-bin folder.
But I am not able to execute the pages stored in htdocs or other folder other than cgi-bin folder.
Could anyone please let me know how... (1 Reply)
Hi
I have written a script and I want it to be run from web with the help of CGI. can you please guide me .
below script is working fine if run from backend but not sure how I should run through web.
#!/bin/bash
string1=look
string2=0
string3=.sdn.dnb
echo -n "enter... (3 Replies)
Hi everyone,
I want to kill process through the web, so I create html page with single bottom that run kill command in shell script with CGI.
Here is html code:
<td><form METHOD="GET" action="http://IP:port/cgi_bin/script.cgi" > <input type="submit" value= "Submit" > <INPUT name="q"... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I have created my script which works properly through the terminal, but I want to convert it to perform all functions as it performs through terminal, but in this case perform through web browser.
My /bin/sh script is:... (1 Reply)
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
plan9-read
CAT(1) General Commands Manual CAT(1)NAME
cat, read, nobs - catenate files
SYNOPSIS
cat [ file ... ]
read [ -m ] [ -n nline ] [ file ... ]
nobs [ file ... ]
DESCRIPTION
Cat reads each file in sequence and writes it on the standard output. Thus
cat file
prints a file and
cat file1 file2 >file3
concatenates the first two files and places the result on the third.
If no file is given, cat reads from the standard input. Output is buffered in blocks matching the input.
Read copies to standard output exactly one line from the named file, default standard input. It is useful in interactive rc(1) scripts.
The -m flag causes it to continue reading and writing multiple lines until end of file; -n causes it to read no more than nline lines.
Read always executes a single write for each line of input, which can be helpful when preparing input to programs that expect line-at-a-
time data. It never reads any more data from the input than it prints to the output.
Nobs copies the named files to standard output except that it removes all backspace characters and the characters that precede them. It is
useful to use as $PAGER with the Unix version of man(1) when run inside a win (see acme(1)) window.
SOURCE
/src/cmd/cat.c
/src/cmd/read.c
/bin/nobs
SEE ALSO cp(1)DIAGNOSTICS
Read exits with status eof on end of file or, in the -n case, if it doesn't read nlines lines.
BUGS
Beware of and which destroy input files before reading them.
CAT(1)