TapasranjanMohapatra wrote: > All, > My script goes like this... > -------------------------------------- > #!/usr/bin/perl > print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; > $cmd = "cat file_one"; > $content = qx!$cmd!; > print "$content"; > --------------------------------------
You should not shell out to read a file, Perl is a full programming language, you should use the builtin functions whenever possible. Especially when they are common and simple ones. It is faster, safer, and less bug/error prone. #!/usr/bin/perl use strict; # always use warnings; # pretty much always print "Content-type: text/html\n\n"; open my $HANDLE, 'file_one' or die "Can't open file for reading: $!"; while (my $line = <$HANDLE>) { print $line; } close $HANDLE; The same thing only faster, much safer, and it will give you diagnostic output in the error log of the web server to find out why it can't read a particular file. See the other poster's comments too. http://danconia.org > I have a case where file_one is not in the same directory. So I give the > absolute path of file_one > in place of file_one. > When run it using perl on command line I get the contents of file printed > correctly. > > But when accessed through browser (cgi-bin), I get nothing printed. > > I thought it might be path problem , but it is not. Because when the file is > in same directory, > it prints the content of the file. > > Can anybody let me know where I am going wrong? > TIA > tapas > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>