convert wget cron command to curl

curl cron wget cron-task
BigMac picture BigMac · Jul 30, 2014 · Viewed 8.6k times · Source

I would like to change the following wget cron commands to curl format:

wget https://www.yoursite.com/index.php?route=cronjob/cronjob -O /dev/null

wget --quiet --delete-after "http://www.yoursite.com/index.php?route=cron/abandoned_cart_reminder&secret_code=yourcode"

Thank you!

Answer

Casey Falk picture Casey Falk · Jul 30, 2014

The commands wget and curl can be used (fairly) similarly if you just want to download something from a URL. Note that the following is available in the man documentation for each command.

Syntax

wget [options] [URL]
curl [options] [URL]

Options

To specify a download location, wget uses -O while curl uses -o.

To silence output, wget uses --quiet while curl uses --silent.

To delete every file that is downloaded upon completion, wget uses --delete-after. I don't believe curl has a related option (or it may do this automatically).

So a direct translation of your first command would be:

wget https://www.yoursite.com/index.php?route=cronjob/cronjob -O /dev/null
curl https://www.yoursite.com/index.php?route=cronjob/cronjob -o /dev/null

Make sense?

There are lots of examples online and extensive documentation on the man page for each command.

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