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Asked: 2026-05-15T20:05:16+00:00

I want to know if there is any way to use Bash(Shell Script) to

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I want to know if there is any way to use Bash(Shell Script) to make web pages, like Perl, C++ and others through CGI. And if there is any way, where I can find a good free hosting for it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    This is definitely possible, and just about any Linux-based (or BSD-based, I guess) shared hosting would be able to do it. I’ve done it for little test pages etc on my cheap 1&1 account.

    On my host, I just call a file “foo.cgi”, and I put the #!/bin/sh line at the top. Works fine. Of course, it’s kind-of a mess for anything complicated.

    #!/bin/sh

cat <<banana
Content-Type: text/html

<html>
  <head>
    <title>Hello, World!</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h1>Hello, World!</h1>
  </body>
</html>
banana

    Obviously a real script could do other stuff. HTTP info is generally in environment variables, but I can’t clearly recall exactly how that works and it might vary depending on the web server involved.

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