OT: How to embed or call a shell script in an html file?

[George Toft]

Several years ago I did a test: perl versus bash cgi scripts.  perl was 
about 5,000 times faster than bash.

Learning Perl isn't that hard - get "Teach Yourself Perl 5 in 21 Days" 
and you'll be ok.

Regards,

George Toft

On 6/23/2013 7:45 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
> From: joe@
>> Now, my follow-up question is, how can I integrate this shell script
>> into an html file as I hope to be able to use it in a web page?
> This is *not* a good idea.  Creating dynamic web pages with shell can be done,
> but it's not one of the things that shell is designed for/good at.  One way is
> briefly described at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/ssi.html .  You
> will have an easier time of it if you use something that's designed for
> creating dynamic web pages, like mod_python or CGI-Perl or Ruby on Rails or
> PHP.
>
>> #!/bin/bash - This shell script that I have named "qsearch" now works.
>>
>> while (:) do
>> echo -e "Press S to search >>> \c"; ans=`readin`; echo; case $ans in
>>    [sS]) echo -e "Find what word? \c";read name1
>>          echo -e "and what second word? \c";read name2
>>          fgrep -y "$name1" q-hid | fgrep -y "$name2" > tempz
>>          cls; echo -e "\nSearch word(s): $name1 $name2";
>>          echo "Here are the first 10 results found:"; echo
>>          head -10 tempz; echo;;
>>    [qQ]) cls; echo; exit;;
>>    *) cls; echo "Not a valid option."; echo;; esac done
>> esac
>> done
> How is this working?  If I paste the above into temp.sh and execute it, it
> says "/bin/bash: - : invalid option".  If I fix the interpreter line so it
> says "#!/bin/bash" , it complains that readin and cls are not valid bash
> commands.  If I replace "ans=`readin`" with "read ans" and "cls" with "clear",
> it fails with a syntax error because "esac done" is in there twice.
>