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I have a crontab job setup. In the crontab file, I have a path to a text file. My text file has a wget command (which in turn, executes a PHP file). If the crontab file just has the path to the text file, will it automatically bash (execute) that text file? Or do I need to prefix the path to the text file with bash?

Skyhawk
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  • You can try it out by copying the "command" portion of the line into a shell, and pressing return. If it says "Permission denied" or another error, then you'll need to check things as suggested by other answers. – fredden Mar 04 '10 at 20:08

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If the file is executable (check if it has x in ls -l, if not, then use chmod to set the executable bit) and the first line contains #!/bin/bash then it will be interpreted in bash.

The other option is, as you suggest, to pass it as an argument to bash:

/bin/bash /path/to/your/file.sh
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  • So, my script should do the following: 1stline: #!/bin/bash 2ndline: wget insertweburl here Is that correct? – StephenPAdams Mar 04 '10 at 22:23
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    Correct. And use `chmod +x ` to set the executable bit. Also, you should probably use the full path to wget, since cronjobs usually run a "bare" environment where `$PATH` might not include the directory where the wget binary resides. – Mikael S Mar 05 '10 at 04:44