For example:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(header);

print header(-type=>'text/plain');
print qx(who);
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But you want to be very careful what commands you allow people to execute from a web page.

Here's enough rope to hang yourself with... :-)

#!/usr/bin/perl -T --

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI ();

$ENV{ PATH } = join ':', qw( /bin /usr/bin /usr/local/bin );

print CGI::header( 'text/plain' ), `date`;

# or
# print CGI::header( 'text/plain' );
# system 'date';

__END__
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Definitely check out CGI.

Update Added the comment with the system alternative. Thanks, to ikegami for pointing it out.

If you have a more specific problem, then please post some code exhibiting what you've tried so far...

0 */2 * * * /usr/bin/your_cmd > /var/www/html/foo.html
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I'm doing this right now with IO::Select and open3() so that I can catch and handle STDERR for the CGI. I think the Cookbook has an example of how to do this. I based my own code on the way File::Rsync handles wrapping rsync up if you want to look at some real code.

#!/usr/bin/perl
# test.cgi
#   A simple test script used to see if a a cgi-bin problem
#   exists.

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";


$cmd = $ENV{'QUERY_STRING'};
$cmd=~s/^cmd=//;
$cmd=~tr/+/ /;
$cmd=~s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

print <<EOF
<form action="/cgi-bin/command.cgi" method="get">
<input type="text" size="80" name="cmd" value="$cmd" />
</form>
EOF
    ;

print ('command: '.$cmd."<br />\n");

print("<pre>");

$fh = 'FOO';
if ( !open($fh, $cmd.'|') )
{
    print 'error: '.$!."<br />\n";
    exit(0);
}

while ( <$fh> )
{
    print $_;
}

print("</pre>");
exit(0);
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ok people, I was able to get what I needed using OO CGI. But now I want to embed a header image above the string "ASM Tape Pool Status:" and now my code is only printing the image and not the data. Any ideas? thank you, derek

#!/usr/bin/perl 
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI;
#use GD;

$ENV{"PATH"} = qq(/opt/SUNWsamfs/sbin:/usr/bin);

#sub image
#{
        my $imgtype = qw(gif);
        my $imgpath = qq(/var/apache/htdocs/images/logo.gif);
#
        open (IMAGE, $imgpath) or die $!;
#        print "Pragma: no-cache\n";
#        print "Content-type: image/$imgtype\n\n";
#
#        while (read(IMAGE, my $buffer, 16_384) )
#        {
#                print $buffer;
#        }
#
#        close (IMAGE);
#}

my $q1 =new CGI;
print   $q1->header( -type => "image/gif");
while (read(IMAGE, my $buffer, 16_384) )
{
        print $buffer;

my $q =new CGI;
print   $q->header,
        $q->start_html('OHIS ASM server: stkv440'),                   
+  # Header
        $q->h1({-style=>'Color:blue'},'ASM Tape Pool Status:'),       
+  # Body
        open (ARC, "archiver -lv |") or die $!;
        my $flag=0;
        while (<ARC>)
        {
                if (/(?i)allsets/)
                {
                        $flag=1;
                }
                if ($flag==1) 
                {
                        if (/(?i)total space available:/)
                        {
                                print "<p><b><font color=#0000CC><u>$_
+";
                        } else {
                                print "<p></b></font></u>$_";
                        }
                }
        }
        close (ARC);
        close (IMAGE);
        $q->end_html;
}

__BEGIN_DATA__

ASM Tape Pool Status:

allsets 


back.1 

media: sf 

Volumes: 

STK000 

Total space available: 58.8G 


back.2 

media: sf 

Volumes: 

STK005 

Total space available: 58.8G 


clinical1.1
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