[lug] Shell/Cron and passing args

[John Starkey]

On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 13:27, Andrew Gilmore wrote:
> I think he really needs a pipe instead...
> 
> 01 00 * * * /path/to/make_featured.php links | /path/to/phpbin > 
> /path/to/log/cron 2>&1
> 
> May work better. I didn't catch that you were using a redirect from 
> another script. That won't work at all. And if you omit the argument, 
> you'll just get the file contents directed.

The "phpbin" is just a compiled php binary, custom for that user - I
probably should have just used "/path/to/php" instead.

Thanks Andrew, and everyone, for the help. Piping it worked.

John

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