How to pass multiple parameters to cron job with curl?

Question

I'm running two cron jobs:

This one executes without a problem:

curl -sS http://example.com/cronjob.php?days=1

But this doesn't run at all:

curl -sS http://example.com/cronjob.php?days=1&month=1

Is this because of the ampersand (&)? If yes, how to pass multiple parameters?

Using argv is not an option.

Answer 1

You'll notice that this doesn't exactly work in your shell, either.

What you need to do is put single quotes around the URL, like so:

curl -sS 'http://example.com/cronjob.php?days=1&month=1'

Answer 2

As an alternative way, you can use \ before & which is a special character for shell. Generally, & is one of special characters that are meaningful for shell.

So, using a backslash [beside Quoting solution] can be a good solution to this problem. more

In your example you can simply apply this command:

curl -sS http://example.com/cronjob.php?days=1\&month=1

Answer 3

Try a POST Request

curl -d "days=1&month=1" www.example.com/cronjob.php

Answer 4

Here's another way to do a POST request with multiple parameters:

curl www.example.com/cronjob.php -d name=John -d age=30

source: https://spring.io/guides/gs/accessing-data-mysql