another possible issue with this is that if joeuser is user input.. then
you are passing user input directly to the shell.. which isn't a good
thing.. I would suggest going with the perl that Ahraon suggested..
>
> On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Brett Simpson wrote:
>
> > I'm looking to use this script in my apache cgi-bin so that users can list specific contents of a file in their web browser. It works ok except that it jumbles the lines togethor. Is there a cleaner way to do this so that it looks readable?
> >
> > #!/usr/bin/perl
> > print "Content-Type: text/html \n\n";
> >
> > print `cat -b /var/www/html/auth.log | grep joeuser`;
> >
> >
> > Brett
> >
>
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