Here is the parameter string I want to feed to an old PERL script that I used to run through CGI:

?a_SEARCH_VALUE=^.{44}15&searchfields=all&sensecase=nocase&sorttype=none&datetype=comp&numorname=authnames

My latest of many efforts is the command line:

perl bl.pl <input.txt >output.html

where input.txt just contains that string. For most of my experiments, the resulting HTML file is correct for the case with no input, which is tested in the code.

I clearly don't understand how CGI passes the input parameter string to the PERL interpreter (in a Linux shell), but the best lead here was an old post about this website:

http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/CGI/cgi_docs.html

Unfortunately, that website only times out now... I think there is a quick and easy solution, but my chief sin is a lack of hubris?

Can't remember all my other experiments, but another obvious one also failed: 

perl bl.pl >output.html
 "?a_SEARCH_VALUE=^.{44}15&searchfields=all&sensecase=nocase&sorttype=
+none&datetype=comp&numorname=authnames"

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In reply to Running a CGI script from a command line? by shanen

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