How to debug CGI scripts with simulated variables from server?

[Sean Berry]

I want to debug a script that has a line like the following:
if len(os.environ["QUERY_STRING"]) > 0:

How do I debug this from the command line. I tried
QUERY_STRING='sized=72&shaped=3' ./aqua_getShapes

But that returns:
QUERY_STRING=sized=72&shaped=3: Command not found.

Please help. Thanks

 

[William Park]

I want to debug a script that has a line like the following:
if len(os.environ["QUERY_STRING"]) > 0:

How do I debug this from the command line. I tried
QUERY_STRING='sized=72&shaped=3' ./aqua_getShapes

But that returns:
QUERY_STRING=sized=72&shaped=3: Command not found.

Works fine here (Slackware-9.1 Linux, bash-2.05b). Try
export QUERY_STRING=...
./aqua_getShapes

 

[David M. Cooke]

I want to debug a script that has a line like the following:
if len(os.environ["QUERY_STRING"]) > 0:

How do I debug this from the command line. I tried
QUERY_STRING='sized=72&shaped=3' ./aqua_getShapes

But that returns:
QUERY_STRING=sized=72&shaped=3: Command not found.

Please help. Thanks

Are you using tcsh as your shell? The syntax above works with Bourne
shells (bash, etc.). With tcsh, try

$ env QUERY_STRING='sized=72&shaped=3' ./aqua_getShapes

('env' being the same program that most Python scripts use to find the
interpreter in the #! line: #! /usr/bin/env pytho)

or, set the variable in the environment

$ setenv QUERY_STRING='sized=72&shaped=3'
$ ./aqua_getShapes