How can i execute shell script from firefox?

solo9300 · 09-30-2009, 07:58 AM

Hello all,

How can i execute shell script from web browser?

For example:

Code:

<a href="test.sh">test2</a>

or

Code:

<a href="gnome-terminal --execute  sh test.sh">test2</a>

Any help would be much appreciated.

jrtayloriv · 09-30-2009, 08:13 AM

Perhaps you could set Firefox's default application for handling .sh files to /bin/bash. Then you could run it by pointing Firefox to the URL file:///path/to/your/script.sh

But why do you want to do this in the first place? There might be a better solution to your problem.

--Jesse Taylor

solo9300 · 09-30-2009, 08:25 AM

well i just moved to Linux so i am trying alot of things

Thx for the tip work grate.

vonbiber · 09-30-2009, 10:13 AM

you could at least indirectly have firefox or for that
matter other web browsers execute shell scripts.

I set google as the default email client in opera and firefox
by selecting the mailto protocol in the preferences and
selecting as the default program a shell script that I wrote.