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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Crontab keeps saving empty files of the job file. Post 302249148 by Smiling Dragon on Monday 20th of October 2008 06:47:30 PM
Old 10-20-2008
If you don't want wget to save the returned html message form consume.php, direct the output file to /dev/null:
Code:
-O /dev/null

You can add a -q flag to have wget suppress output information as well, that way you don't need the 2>&1 /dev/null part (so you'll get sent genuine issues but not regular runs).
 

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xcfa

xcfa(1) 							   Manual: Xcfa 							   xcfa(1)

NAME

       xcfa - GTK+ Implementation of the GNU shell command.

SYNOPSIS

       xcfa [OPTION]... [FILE]...

       -h, -help
	      Displays this help section and exits.

       -version
	      Displays the version of the program and exits.

       -verbose
	      Activate verbose mode

       -systray
	      Activate systray mode

       DESCRIPTION
	      Interface contains console tools (cdparanoia, lame, oggenc, ...).
	      Allows extraction of audio from DVD to .wav format.
	      Allows extracting audio from CD to formats such as: wav, mp3, flac, ogg, m4a, mpc, ape.
	      Allows encoding audio to: wav, mp3, flac, ogg, m4a mpc, ape.
	      Allows encoding the .wma format to: wav, mp3, flac, ogg, m4a mpc, ape.
	      Allows cutting of files.
	      Allows management of common file-types before converting.
	      Allows management of bitrates, frequencies, and channels.
	      Allows creation of CD covers.
	      Developed with Gtk2 and Glade and runs under the X window system on the GNU platform.

USAGE

       After the first launch, go to the Options tab and modify the settings to your liking.

ADDING THE GPG KEY

       With sudo:
       $ wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/xcfaudio/download/xcfaudio.key.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add -
       Without sudo:
       $ su root
       [Enter the password for root.]
       # wget http://download.tuxfamily.org/xcfaudio/download/xcfaudio.key.asc -O - | apt-key add -
       Another solution with root:
       # gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv 00B21603DD5C7A79
       # gpg --export --armor 00B21603DD5C7A79 | sudo apt-key add -

SOURCES.LIST
       Add the following lines to your [ /etc/apt/sources.list ] file for automatic updates:

       ## Xcfa for i386 and amd64
       deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/xcfaudio/xcfa dev contrib
       deb-src http://download.tuxfamily.org/xcfaudio/xcfa dev contrib

COMPLEMENTARY PACKAGE INSTALLATION
:
       See the Recovery and Complementary package installation guide:
       http://www.xcfa.tuxfamily.org/index.php?static2/xcfa

CHANGELOG

       Read the ChangeLog file and view the source code.

AUTHOR

       XCFA is developed by Claude Bulin (xcfa@tuxfamily.org)

4.3.1								 Wed, 23 May 2012							   xcfa(1)
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