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"` > > > > >__________________________________________________ >Do you Yahoo!? >Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site >http://webhosting.yahoo.com >
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