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veeruk101 07-16-2011 07:08 PM
wget to access web resource but not download it
 
Is there a way for wget not to download a file but rather just access it? I use it to access a URL that triggers a process on a web server, but the actual HTML file at that location doesn't need to be downloaded and saved. I couldn't find anything in wget's help to show if there's a way to do this. Could anyone suggest a way of doing this? Thanks.

theNbomr 07-16-2011 07:44 PM
How about
Code:
wget -o /dev/null http://www.some.url
--- rod.

arizonagroovejet 07-17-2011 04:51 AM
FWIW my first thought was that I'd do this with curl.
Code:
curl -s  http://whatever > /dev/null
I can't think of any reason to use curl over wget though. What theNbomr suggested seems like a perfectly good solution.


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