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Karl H.
Karl H.

Reputation: 199

wget to call a php script but it creates output

I am calling wget from crontab to periodically call a php script on my site:

wget -q http://mydomain.com/myscript?pa=doscript >/dev/null 2>&1

It works fine, but in the root dir of my webspace each call creates output files called

myscript?pa=doscript
myscript?pa=doscript.1 ...

I tried to supress the output with -q and >/dev/null 2>&1 but obviously it does not work. Why?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 462

Answers (2)

drew010
drew010

Reputation: 69947

Try:

wget -O /dev/null -q http://mydomain.com/myscript?pa=doscript >/dev/null 2>&1

This tells wget to save the file to /dev/null essentially discarding it.

See man wget and the -O option.

Upvotes: 2

nickb
nickb

Reputation: 59699

Just call PHP from the cron job instead of wget:

php -f /path/to/myscript pa=doscript

Or:

/usr/bin/php -f /path/to/myscript pa=doscript

This assumes the small trick to import $_GET variables from the command line:

parse_str(implode('&', array_slice($argv, 1)), $_GET);

Or, you can rewrite your script to use $argc and $argv.

Upvotes: 1

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