Why doesn't ">/dev/null 2>&1" work?

Question

ubuntu

I set up a Cron job, it works, but retains garbage, which seems to be not there)




The question is what's wrong?

Answer 1

Use curl:curl -o /dev/null -sL http://myurl.com

Answer 2

So everything is correct. By default, wget writes to a file with a name formed from the http parameters.
in order to redirect the downloaded stream to stdout, you must use the option to write to a named file and instead of the name, shove -
-O file
--output-document=file
The documents will not be written to the appropriate files, but all will be concatenated together and written to file. If - is used as file, documents will be printed to standard output , disabling link conversion. (Use ./- to print to a file literally named -.)
In your case, you can generally send both the log and the document to devnull at once.
wget -o /dev/null -O /dev/null ******