Passing inputs to a POST form in a cgi from the command line (to DProf scripts, etc):
echo “attribute=value1+value2…” | perl -d:DProf scriptname.cgi
Alternately, “attribute=value1+value2…” (no quotes) can be in a file, testfile.txt. Then you just:
perl -d:DProf scriptname.cgi < testfile.txt