UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

my shell script is to reset user menu:

#!/bin/ksh

echo "Type in login id: \c"
read username

if [ -z "$username" ]
then
echo "....."
echo "You have not entered any INPUT value."
echo "...Goodbye..."
sleep 10

exit
else
echo $username
rm -f /.../../$username.xml
fi

A browser is a program which reads from a network device and displays its content in some way. A script is a program run on a machine.

Sorry for being so abstract, but it seems that you are missing the underlying architectural implications of your question.

To begin with your script would have to communicate with a web server. Only the web server generates the network stream which could be understood by a browser. There is a general interface for this, which is called CGI. I suggest you read a book about CGI programming, because this is way too complex to be explained in a few words here.

Yes, you could use ksh to write CGI programs (in fact it is one of the best languages to do so).

You would then have to create a web page (some HTML-documents), which takes the input from the user (over the network), passes this input to the script, takes the result of the scripts run (if any) and then displays this to the user.

I hope this helps.

bakunin

and very well i might add =)


https://www.unix.com/unix-dummies-que...cript-cgi.html

yes, i meant to run from cgi. thanks.