Thanks for the advice. I would've thought about that sooner or later, but
better sooner than later. And this is not on a high traffic site, in fact
only a few select folks know about it. Anyhow, hows this...
my $manpage = param("manpage");
if ($manpage =~ /^([-\@\w.]+)$/) {
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:20:49PM -0500, J. Patrick Lanigan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
spew-ed forth:
[snip]
> my $manpage = param("manpage");
> my @output = `man $manpage | perl -pe 's/(?:.\cH)//g'`; #Thanks Paul
Please read perlsec and untaint $manpage (by hand, or with
Man, this list rocks, and I am really atarting to love this language. Thanks
for all your suggestions. Ultimately, Paul is the winner :) The code follows
works wonders:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use CGI qw(:standard);
print header(), start_html("Online Manpag
--- Casey West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:12:23PM -0500, J. Patrick Lanigan wrote:
> : Thanks to Paul and Mike for the quick response.
> :
> : Now, does anyone know how I can trim out the unwanted charecters
> from the
> : output of a man page so that I can display i
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:12:23PM -0500, J. Patrick Lanigan wrote:
: Thanks to Paul and Mike for the quick response.
:
: Now, does anyone know how I can trim out the unwanted charecters from the
: output of a man page so that I can display it in a browser?
Well, you could use the man2html utili
This group is great, but sometimes deja's still the best source! ;>
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22man+output%22+perl
> Now, does anyone know how I can trim out the unwanted charecters from
the
> output of a man page so that I can display it in a browser?
>
> Sample as is:
>
> NNAAMMEE
Thanks to Paul and Mike for the quick response.
Now, does anyone know how I can trim out the unwanted charecters from the
output of a man page so that I can display it in a browser?
Sample as is:
NNAAMMEE
ls - list directory contents
SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
llss [_O_P_T
yep -- and backticks sets $? with the return code as well, so you get both
if you want.
- Original Message -
From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "J. Patrick Lanigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:4
--- "J. Patrick Lanigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Now that I have CGI working with apache on my server, I am
> experimenting.
> Anyhow, I wrote the following script and was wondering how to capture
> the output of a system call. I am trying to capture the output so
that
> I can format it for
Patrick,
Put your command in backticks and set a variable to its output (like this
$var = `man $manpage`;)
- Original Message -
From: "J. Patrick Lanigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 8:25 PM
Subject: system call question
> Now that I have C
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