Re: How do I run .pl script from Unix command line, and pass CGI variables to it?

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Re: Re: How do I run .pl script from Unix command line, and pass CGI variables to it? by Lori713 (Pilgrim) on Dec 15, 2003 at 16:03 UTC
Unfortunately, I don't know how to fix my environment (actually, I don't know what's wrong with it). I was hoping by getting the summary.pl to run with some variables passed to it that it would have gotten previously I would get further along in my debugment efforts. The command line error at 56 is referring to a CGI variable that I usually would have passed to it, so it can't find the template because I haven't passed the correct variable info. (Does that make sense?) Lori	[reply]
Re: How do I run .pl script from Unix command line, and pass CGI variables to it? by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Dec 15, 2003 at 16:20 UTC
Odd. CGI programs ran from the command line used to prompt the user for keyword/value pairs. Anyway, have you read the DEBUGGING section in the CGI.pm manual page? Abigail	[reply]
Re: Re: How do I run .pl script from Unix command line, and pass CGI variables to it? by Lori713 (Pilgrim) on Dec 15, 2003 at 16:30 UTC
That's exactly what I needed. I can type in at the command line: summary.pl rpt_id=1_summary, and it passes the value of the CGI variable "rpt_id" to my script, which then ran beautimously. Thanks! Now, I just need to figure out why I get a "java" error on the web page, but not in Unix. More fun! ;-) Lori	[reply]