How do you redirect wget to standard out?

Question

I have a crontab that wgets a PHP page every five minutes (just to run some the PHP code), and I want to send the output to /dev/null. I couldn't find it in the wget manual.

I'm looking for something like:

wget -o stout http://whatever.com/page.php > /dev/null

Anyone know?

Answer 1

wget -O - http://whatever.com/page.php > /dev/null

or, if you want to redirect standard error output also:

wget -O - http://whatever.com/page.php > /dev/null 2>&1

Answer 2

wget -O /dev/null http://example.com/

Answer 3

wget -qO /dev/null http://whatever.com/page.php

• -q to make it quiet
• -O /dev/null to ignore the page contents

Answer 4

You can also try:

wget -q -O - http://whatever.com/page.php > /dev/null 

the -q will make it "quiet"

Or have the file go to some temp html page that you don't mind having. whatever.com/tempFile.html