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This sample application was designed by the author, Mark Dickinson, with one purpose in mind, as a companion example to my tutorial on writing web applications using only shell scripts, to teach that CGI scripts do not have to be written only in PERL to achieve a full function CGI based web application. The normal shell scripts that your systems administrators are familiar with can be used perfectly well.

The sample scripts here are not secure, they are written to provide a tutorial on how to use shell scripts for CGI coding, not on how to correctly write them.

This sample problem and change application you may download and customise to your hearts content as long as you never distribute anything based on this work; as it is a demo only and not for production use.

But of course you don't intend to start building commercial applications in shell script anyway, you just want to see how it all hooks together. The sample code is free to obtain and use, and you may play with it as you wish subject to the restrictions above.