Re: shell script cgi

From: Rajko Zschiegner (rajko@ricki-z.com)
Date: Thu Nov 14 2002 - 15:03:12 PST

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    Hi,
    
    may be this line solves your problem:
    
    ua=`echo \`$HTTP_USER_AGENT\` | sed "s#\;##g"`
    
    Regards,
    
    Rajko Zschiegner
    
    
    c jones wrote:
    
    >Hi,
    >
    >I have found the line below in an sh cgi program, and
    >believe I can pass a command to the shell but can't
    >seem to get it to work right. No matter what I try as
    >the HTTP_USER_AGENT it interprets it as a string in
    >the echo command & I can't get it to break it into a
    >new command. Nothing is done to HTTP_USER_AGENT before
    >this line...it's just reading it directly from the
    >environment.
    >
    >Any help you may have is very much appreciated.
    >
    >Thanks
    >
    >ua=`echo "$HTTP_USER_AGENT" | sed "s#\;##g"`
    >
    >
    >
    >
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