I'm trying to generate a unique string using: 
gpg --gen-random 1 16 | gpg --enarmor | sed -n 5p

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If I put this in a perl script and run from the command line it works just fine generating something along these lines: 
J7Ld1bWb56ezv3GRF7RfBg==

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When I put it into a cgi script it always produces the same value of "=twTO". This happens even when I use HTML::Template and "ESCAPE HTML".

what gives? 
----perl script--------------------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
$serialno = `gpg --gen-random 1 16 | gpg --enarmor | sed -n 5p`;
print $serialno;

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----cgi script-----------------------------------------
 #!/usr/bin/perl -wT
   $serialno = `gpg --gen-random 1 16 | gpg --enarmor | sed -n 5p`;
    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
    chomp($serialno);
    print "$serialno";
    exit;

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In reply to works as a perl script, but not as cgi by gstrock

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