Question

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?

Answer 1

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.