How to launch a shell script (.sh) from an HTML page ?

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From: David Winter
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2001 09:30

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Hi,

I'm sure somebody already posted the solution some time ago, but I couldn't
find it.
I need to launch a sheel script (.sh file) from an HTML page under unix
(Solaris and others).
I am NOT using any server: this only a LOCAL html page. No virtual
directories.

Right now I am using the following code, that is executed from an image
button in an HTML <form>:

<script>
function openMyFile ()
{
    if (document.layers)
    {
        var exePath = new String('. ./test.sh');

netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalExecAccess');
        java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().exec(exePath);
    }
}
</script>


The test.sh file changes the current directory in order to run another sh
that launches a java application.

I have tried several shell commands, such as:

    '. ./test.sh'
    './test.sh'

but no luck. Nothing happens and my sh file is not launched.
Any ideas ? Please reply in this newsgroup.


Thank you for your help,

David Winter

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