>~/log works well and adds a line to the log file with There are rows with total_time. But the same line as cron does nothing. It's not a path issue as curlmyurl.com>>~/log works.">
I'm having a cron problem with curl:
curl -w "%{time_total}\n" -o /dev/null -s http://myurl.com >> ~/log< ;/pre> Works great and adds a line with total_time in the log file.
But the same line as cron does nothing.
This is not a path issue, since curl http://myurl.com >> ~/log works.
%is a special character forcrontab. Fromman 5 crontab:So you need to escape the
%characters:curl -w "%{time_total}\n" -o /dev/null -s http://myurl.com >> ~/logto
curl -w "\%{time_total}\n" -o /dev/null -s http://myurl.com >> ~/log ^