Question

I try to create a cronjob on windows7 iis. I downloaded the wget.exe from here, and created a batch file called: “cron.bat”

"D:\creation\software developer\wget\wget.exe" -q http://www.webshop.loc/cron;
pause;

My problem is whenever I call that file it creates a file called: “cron;#” where # is the number of the file calls. So on first call: “cron;” on second call: “cron;1”, on third call: “cron;2” is created. How can I stop this flood of file creations?

Answer 1

Tell wget to write the output to the screen instead of a file, by using -O -

You can then pipe it to “nothing” with >NUL

Your command will become

"D:\creation\software developer\wget\wget.exe" -q http://www.webshop.loc/cron -O - >NUL
pause