Bash script to run php script

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I have a php script that I want to be run using a bash script  so I can use Cron to run the php script every minute or so   As far as I m aware I need to create the bash script to handle the php script which will then allow me to use the Cron tool timer   So far I was told I need to put      pathtoscript testphp php   at the start of my php script  Im not sure what to do from here     Any advice  Thanks

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A previous poster said        If you have PHP installed as a command line tool    your shebang      line needs to look like this     usr bin php   While this could be true    just because you can type in php does NOT necessarily mean that s where php is going to be      usr bin php is A common location    but as with any shebang    it needs to be tailored to YOUR env   a quick way to find out WHERE YOUR particular executable is located on your  PATH  try    which -a php ENTER  which for me looks like    php is  usr local php5 bin php php is  usr bin php php is  usr local bin php php is  Library WebServer CGI-Executables php  The first one is the default i d get if I just typed in php at a command prompt    but I can use any of them in a shebang  or directly     You can also combine the executable name with env  as is often seen  but I don t really know much about   trust that   XOXO

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I m pretty sure something like this is what you are looking for      bin sh  php  pathToScript script php   Save that with your desired script name  such as runPHP sh  and give it execution rights  then you can use it however you want   Edit  You might as well not use a bash script at all and just add the  php      command to the crontab  if I m not mistaken   Good luck

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If you have PHP installed as a command line tool  try issuing php to the terminal and see if it works   your shebang      line needs to look like this      usr bin php   Put that at the top of your script  make it executable  chmod  x myscript php   and make a Cron job to execute that script  same way you d execute a bash script    You can also use php myscript php

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usr bin env bash PHP  which php   PHP  path to php file php

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I found php-cgi on my server  And its on environment path so I was able to run from anywhere  I executed succesfuly file php in my bash script      bin bash php-cgi    path file php   And the script returned this after php script was executed   X-Powered-By  PHP 7 1 1  Content-type  text html  charset UTF-8   done   By the way  check first if it works by checking the version issuing the command php-cgi -v

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You just need to set     usr bin php path to your php file   in your crontab

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a quick way to find out WHERE YOUR particular executable is located on your  PATH  try    Even quicker way to find out where php is      whereis php   I m running debian and above command showing me   php   usr bin php  usr share php  usr share man man1 php 1 gz   Hope that helps

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The bash script should be something like this      bin bash  usr bin php  path to php file php   You need the php executable  usually found in  usr bin  and the path of the php script to be ran  Now you only have to put this bash script on crontab and you re done

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If you don t do anything in your bash script than run the php one  you could simply run the php script from cron with a command like  usr bin php  path to your file php

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