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in thread Slightly OT: Perl and CGI - reading a file

Upload this script and run via CGI: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Cwd;
print "Content-Type: text/html\n\n";
print "<p>Perl says CWD is: ", cwd();
print "<p>System PWD says: ", `pwd`;

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cheers

tachyon

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Slightly OT: Perl and CGI - reading a file
by C_T (Scribe) on Mar 31, 2004 at 16:45 UTC
    Apparently they're both returning nothing. I get: 

    Perl says CWD is: 

System PWD says:

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    As output.

    Charles Thomas
    Madison, WI
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[d/l]

      Your server must be running some sort of 'broken' virualisation environment. There are too many posibilities. I would suggest finding a host that will let you have SSH access. See perlmonk.org for a good option if you just want to play about.

      cheers

      tachyon

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