Scripting for file transfer

[maxwelton]

I have the following in a csh script. This is run on a remote system
and the
goal is to allow a user on a client to tar and gzip files and download
them to
their system. All I get is streamed data to the browser. Any help
would
be appreciated.



# ! /bin/csh

echo "Content-description: File Transfer'\n"
echo "'Content-type: application/x-gzip\n'"
echo "Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"site.tar.gz\"\n";

# < do some file redirection in here ->

tar cf - * | gzip -c

#end

The interesting thing is if I do:

tar cf - * | gzip -c > site.tar.gz

then the file is able to be unzipped and untarred and it is all good.
I think my problem is somewhere in those 'content' headers. I can
also try :

tar zcf - * | cat

and this streams the data to the browser as well.

 

[Paul Lalli]

I have the following in a csh script.

Why was this cross-posted to a Perl newsgroup? There is no Perl
content here at all.

Thank you, however, for at least not multi-posting it...

Paul Lalli

 

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

I have the following in a csh script. This is run on a remote system
and the goal is to allow a user on a client to tar and gzip files
and download them to their system. All I get is streamed data to the
browser. Any help would be appreciated.

This more properly belongs in a group devoted to CGI programming,
e.g., comp.infosystems.www.authoring.cgi.

# ! /bin/csh

I recommend that you do not write scripts in csh; read these for
more information:

<http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/CshTop10.txt>
<http://www.grymoire.com/Unix/Csh.html#uh-0>

echo "Content-description: File Transfer'\n"
echo "'Content-type: application/x-gzip\n'"
echo "Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"site.tar.gz\"\n";

# < do some file redirection in here ->

tar cf - * | gzip -c

#end

You need a blank line after the headers:

echo "Content-disposition: attachment; filename=\"site.tar.gz\"\n\n";