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i have a web cgi form, that take input from a user, and then uses that input to set the server up to run certain commands. so a user would select for example run vmstat: so you grab the input from the form, and then you would like to run vmstat with a time value after it like " vmstat 5 " how would you output this onto the html screen, so the user can see the results.

EG :

my $cmd = $q->param('cmd');   # From html form
print <<EndHTML;

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 <br>Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
if ($cmd =~ /vmstat/) {

        printf "Starting to run :$cmd</a>\n";
        # Would run something like system("vmstat 5") here
        }

}

print <<EndFoot;

</body></html>
EndFoot

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edited by ybiC 2003-07-16 : <code> tags

In reply to CGI running local shell scripts by minixman

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