> Need a perl CGI script that will print to a web page the contents of a
> directory specified in the program.  Basically i need the 
> perl program to
> simply call the unix "ls" function, not sure how to 
> encorporate this into my
> script though, any ideas?

system() will work, however you will have to be careful to not allow input like this 
in the web page:

/home/foo/$(rm -rf /*)
/foo/bar`really bad thing`
etc etc

Read up on "taint" mode, if you want to be super safe.
Luke

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