Question

At work I have a long command that I frequently execute in terminal. It has 6 variables that I have to change each time I use it. Rather than copy and paste my command from a text file and manually alter the variables, I am trying to come up with a simply way to create a GUI that will allow me to make changes and execute it. Probably there is other solution than HTML.. The only purpose is to be able to conveniently pass the arguments to a command line.

I use Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx).

The suggestions are very appreciated.

Answer 1

1. Run a server (Apache is common, Lighttpd is small).
2. Create a form.
3. Write a server side process in your language of choice (I lean towards Perl) that receives data from the form, acts on it, and then delivers a new HTML document to the browser.