WGET without the log file

Question

Every time I use wget http://www.domain.com a Log file is being saved automatically on my server. is there anyway to run this command without logging?

Thanks,

Joel

Marjorymarjy

Answer 1

You could try -o and -q

-o logfile
   --output-file=logfile
       Log all messages to logfile.  The messages are  
       normally reported to standard error.
-q
 --quiet
     Turn off Wget's output.

So you'd have:

wget ... -q -o /dev/null ...

Tensive

Thanks! But what if I dont want logging at all... Not even to logfile – Marjorymarjy

This isn't writing any logs anywhere. /dev/null is not a regular file, whatever you write there is not really written, so it does not take space and of course cannot be read back. – Tammany

You will also want to use the -O option to prevent a copy of the downloaded file being saved (perhaps -O /dev/null) – Internalize

The equivalent for Windows machines is -q -O nul. – Roddie

-q -O nul may not be enough on Windows. If you have switches behind, a log file named after these switches may get created... e.g. -q -O nul --no-cache may create a log named --no-cache! I circumvented this by using the somewhat ridiculous combination -O NUL -o NUL ! – Hobie

If solutions does not work contact your hosting company. In my case nothing worked, and when I asked hosting company, they told me that on shared/reseller hosting cron job logging can not be disabled – Relume

Answer 2

This will print the site contents to the standard output, is this what you mean when you say that you don't want logging to a file?

wget -O - http://www.domain.com/

Hecto

After I run the wget command, a file named "index.php" (which I ran using WGET) is created on my server directory , with the output of the page inside it. I don't want any output, whatsoever... I run this file to do some UPDATES in the database, and need no output of any kind – Marjorymarjy

Answer 3

I personally found that @Paul's answer was still adding to a Log file, regardless of the Command line output of -q

Added -O to /dev/null ontop of the -o output file argument.

wget [url] -q -o /dev/null -O &> /dev/null

Terena

Answer 4

Not sure how it is on Windows, but on Linux, the lowercase -o specifies log output file and uppercase -O is output / download file, I use uppercase -q -O /dev/null to prevent output. Wget manual.

Homogamy