Hey guys, I have a pretty big script that makes a lot of print calls at various points to generate an html output -- is there anyway I can have the output save to the server automatically each time this is ran? If this was a more simple script I could just push the print statements to "whatever > /dir/name.html" but in this case that's not really an option.

I thought about making a system call to run the script again at the end, however I'm not sure if this is able to be done due to the nature of the input which is a file (users go to an .html front end page and then select the file to upload which is used for the script input). I tried something like:

system("perl /dir/script.cgi parametername='/dir/file' > /dir/output.html");

However the output html file I get just gives me my invalid file message so it doesn't look like it takes the input in that way. Is there a better way to approach this or should I be able to pass a file as a parameter in the system perl call?

In reply to Saving .cgi Output; Passing File As Argument? by Ragged Robin

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