in reply to CGI Command Line

Use the CGI.pm module and follow the directions in its debugging documentation.

For example, if your script is in the file color.cgi 

#!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
my $color=param('color');
print "Your chosen color is $color.\n";

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then from the command line you can type 
 ./color.cgi color=red
to see it run as it would from a URL like color.cgi?color=red

- barrachois

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Re: Re: CGI Command Line
by bhappy (Scribe) on Apr 13, 2004 at 12:08 UTC
    I also like using Data::Dumper when debugging my CGI scripts. 
    #!/usr/bin/perl -T
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(:standard);
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Data::Dumper;
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
my $color=param('color');
print Dumper($color);
exit;
print "Your chosen color is $color.\n";

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    # ./color.cgi color=red
Content-type: text/plain

$VAR1 = 'red';

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    It's useful when the script is big and all you want is to check a variable in a middle of it.
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      Ooh! Very nice! That's soo much easier that writing my own code to do that type of debugging. Thanks for the tip! Joe
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Re: Re: CGI Command Line
by JoeJaz (Monk) on Apr 12, 2004 at 21:26 UTC
    I didn't realize that it was that simple. That's very useful Thanks a lot! Joe
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