Question

I’ve noticed that within my user’s directory (/home/user/) there are a bunch of files like….

index.html.25
index.html.17
index.html.23
index.html.5
index.html.9
index.html.1
index.html.32
index.html.4

And also other files that happen to be the name of my crons that run. I’ve verified that these files have no contents in them. Their file size is 0.

My crons use wget [url]

The thing is, none of these crons use my index page (which is PHP, not html).

Any thoughts on why this might be happening?

Answer 1

you can try

wget -O ${SOME_NAME} ${url}

this will replace any existing file if exists

or if you don’t need to write into disk

wget -q -O- ${url}