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Re: using CGI to output a system command

by davorg (Chancellor)
on Aug 02, 2005 at 14:13 UTC ( [id://480194]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to using CGI to output a system command

For example:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI qw(header);

print header(-type=>'text/plain');
print qx(who);

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But you want to be very careful what commands you allow people to execute from a web page.

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