topic Re: Running ksh script from javascript in Operating System - Linux

Running ksh script from javascript

Rick Meijer — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:06:15 GMT

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!

Re: Running ksh script from javascript

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:12:13 GMT

Hi Rick:

I believe you have a system call available.

...

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

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Running ksh script from javascript

Torsten. — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:12:43 GMT

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.

Re: Running ksh script from javascript

Rick Meijer — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:34:34 GMT

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!

Re: Running ksh script from javascript

Torsten. — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:37:26 GMT

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"

Re: Running ksh script from javascript

James R. Ferguson — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:42:24 GMT

Hi (aain) Rick:

Notice the first "System" is an uppercase letter:

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

Regards!

...JRF...

Re: Running ksh script from javascript

Rick Meijer — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 15:24:29 GMT

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

Thanks!