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Dear all,

I have a bash script which looks like that:

Code:

#!/bin/sh



echo Content-type: text/html

echo

echo

echo "<HTML>"

echo "<HEAD>"

echo "</HEAD>"

echo "<BODY>"

echo "<PRE>"

file="/home/www/testcgi.html"

date1=`ls -l $file | cut -d " " -f6`

date2=`ls -l $file | cut -d " " -f7`

date3=`ls -l $file | cut -d " " -f8`

printf "Last updated : $date1 $date2 $date3\n"

echo "</PRE>"

echo "</BODY>"

echo "</HTML>"

I'd like to embed it into an HTML page.
A link like this works:

Code:

<A HREF="http://localhost/cgi-bin/html2.sh">sh</A>

But the following does not:

Code:

<script src="http://localhost/cgi-bin/html2.sh" type="text/javascript"> </script>

I know it's not javascript but this is what I read on the web ...

Any idea?

By the way is it possible to get the file name of an html page in an html script?

Thanks,

Eric.

In the first (working) example, the script is called and executed on the server. It produces output which is sent to your browser.

The second example specifies a script which is to be executed on the client, that is inside you web browser. Web browsers do not understand Bash, just Javascript (and I think Visual Basic, maybe some more). A line like this could never work.

jlinkels

That for your answer I'll try an other way.

Eric.

You could make your script into a cgi script -it will still be executed on the server machine though.

This works:

Code:

<object type="text/html" data="http://localhost/cgi-bin/date.py"></object>

Code:

<object type="text/html" data="http://localhost/cgi-bin/html2.sh"></object>

Either with bash or python it works.

Eric.