bashapachecgi-bin

cgi-bin, bash and formatting output

cat /usr/lib/cgi-bin/test00.cgi

#!/bin/bash
echo "Content-type: text/html"
cat /tmp/file

results is:

one two three four

How format output like a bash script (with newline)?

one
two
three
four
Solution

  • Here you can use both html and UNIX commands

    #!/bin/bash

echo Content-type: text/html
echo ""

/bin/cat << EOM
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>File Output: /tmp/file </TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgcolor="#cccccc" text="#000000">
<HR SIZE=5>
<H1>File Output: /tmp/file </H1>
<HR SIZE=5>
<P>
<SMALL>
<PRE>
EOM

/bin/cat /tmp/file

CAT << EOM
</PRE>
</SMALL>
<P>
</BODY>
</HTML>
EOM