Running ksh script from javascript

[Rick Meijer]

Hello all.
How do I run an HP-UX shell script from within Javascript? Is it possible? I'm looking for something similar to PHP's exec.

Thanks in advance!

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi Rick:

I believe you have a system call available.

...

System.system("/usr/local/bin/mything")

Regards!

...JRF...

[Torsten.]

Unlikely.

javascript runs on the client (browser), PHP runs on the server. For this reason there is the CGI (server side) from the beginning of web servers.

There are always examples in the
/apache/cgi-bin
directory.

[Rick Meijer]

Thanks very much for the quick responses. I searched for "system.system" but came up with nothing but I am not done.

Yeah I was thinking that JavaScript being a client side scripting langauge would be a problem. I was looking in that direction because of its popularity. PHP is looking like a better way to go.

Thanks very much!

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

It depends on what you want to do - PHP can do a lot. But via CGI you can write nice small scripts in your favourite script language - ksh, perl, tclsh, ... almost "on the fly"

[James R. Ferguson]

Hi (aain) Rick:

Notice the first "System" is an uppercase letter:

System.system("/usr/local/bin/mything")

Regards!

...JRF...

[Rick Meijer]

After further review, I'm going the CGI route.

Thanks!