terminal commands in javascript

[netopalis45]

I have a javascript page that I would like to use to run terminal commands and possibly show the output from those commands on that page. Google was very unhelpful as I don't think it could understand what I wanted. Specifically I would like to use the cat command to read a file, I can do this in a .sh file with $(cat /home/file) and I would like to do something similar except with javascript on my page. Ideas?

[msammels]

I'm not sure if this is possible. You can, if you so wish, do it with PHP, but you cannot execute system commands from Javascript.

Even if you could, I wouldn't recommend it, as its terribly unsafe, and opens up your system, creating a massive security hole

[netopalis45]

The page is password protected so I don't believe it would be a security problem

[netopalis45]

How about just reading the contents of a .txt file into one of the javascript commands? I think I could figure it out from there. (Again it would be similar to using $(cat /home/file.txt) to pass the contents of that file to a variable in a .sh script)

[dcstar]

I'm not sure if this is possible. You can, if you so wish, do it with PHP, but you cannot execute system commands from Javascript.

Even if you could, I wouldn't recommend it, as its terribly unsafe, and opens up your system, creating a massive security hole

100% correct, Javascript is a set of limited capability commands that specifically do not spawn off into commands that could do whoever knows what.

If you want stupid capabilities that could possibly wreck systems then I suggest people look at the various Microsoft products.