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I will test setting the QUERY_STRING env variable. &nbsp;This didn't occur to me.
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I will test setting the QUERY_STRING env variable.  This didn't occur to me.

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The environment variable seemed to work. &nbsp;Now I need to debug the nasty bugger!<br />
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Thanks!
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The environment variable seemed to work.  Now I need to debug the nasty bugger!

Thanks!

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ie: &nbsp;I want to run a cgi script from unix command line to check if it will run properly. &nbsp;However, the shell doesn't recognize the params Im feeding the script as params that go with the script.<br />
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I've tried:<br />
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echo &quot;?blah=0&quot; | ./script.cgi<br />
script.cgi ?blah=0<br />
script.cgi '?blah=0'<br />
etc etc<br />
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I continue to get this error:<br />
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./script.cgi: require: command not found<br />
./script.cgi: MAIN:: command not found<br />
./script.cgi: syntax error near unexpected token `&amp;R'<br />
./script.cgi: ./menu.cgi: line 13: ` &nbsp;&amp;ReadParse;'<br />
<br />
Thanks in advance<br />
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note: this is not my script and I don't know the inner workings of it. &nbsp;A friend of mine (IRL and trustable) wrote this. &nbsp;However, he's not sure how to do this either (newbie to Perl and cgi. &nbsp;I am too)<br />
<br />
Jim
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ie:  I want to run a cgi script from unix command line to check if it will run properly.  However, the shell doesn't recognize the params Im feeding the script as params that go with the script.

I've tried:

echo "?blah=0" | ./script.cgi
script.cgi ?blah=0
script.cgi '?blah=0'
etc etc

I continue to get this error:

./script.cgi: require: command not found
./script.cgi: MAIN:: command not found
./script.cgi: syntax error near unexpected token `&R'
./script.cgi: ./menu.cgi: line 13: `  &ReadParse;'

Thanks in advance

note: this is not my script and I don't know the inner workings of it.  A friend of mine (IRL and trustable) wrote this.  However, he's not sure how to do this either (newbie to Perl and cgi.  I am too)

Jim

Running CGI from command line with URL command params...

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