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[Metalshark]

If you just put a URL in your crontab, it's not going to work - you're just going to get a lot of error messages. I recommend pre-pending the URL with wget or curl like so: (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11375260/)

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curl http://example.com/test.php

The wget seems to work for me but it downloads the whole php file from the server and its just such a pain to delete it. Any suggestions on how to stop it from downloading the php script?

[Guest]

Check out wget's man page.

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man wget

You can do it like this:

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wget -O - $URL >> /tmp/outfile

outfile will contain the stdout of the URL.