This page was taken from a magazine article, years and years ago. The

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    <title>Executing commands</title>

    <p>I expect that I'll have an article some time in the coming

    months about using SSI with small CGI programs. For now, here's

    something else that you can do with the <code>exec</code>

    <p>Here's something else that you can do with the <code>exec</code>

    function. You can actually have SSI execute a command using the

    shell (<code>/bin/sh</code>, to be precise - or the DOS shell,

    if you're on Win32). The following, for example, will give you