Log the return of curl which runs in a cron job

Question

I've page "test.php" that runs a PHP script and return datetime / some results ... this page I call in a cron job, it runs successfully but I want to log the returned results in one file

I tried this ... cron_log.log was empty

wget -q -O - http://****/test.php >> /home/****/logs/cron_log/cron_log.log

I tried this ... but the cron_log.log contained date about the job execution, not the the response returned from the test.php

curl http://****/test.php > /home/****/logs/cron_log/cron_log.log 2>&1

Please can you help me in logging the returned results from curl?

P.S. I'm using a cPanel and I've access to the WHM

Update I need to append responses in the log file, so I can follow up the execution log of the cron job, this command (curl -k) truncates the log file, however I need to append returns on it.

curl -K http://****/test.php >> /home/****/logs/cron_log/cron_log.log

@Fky The script returns the current date/time and a counter ...all are concatenated in one string — Doaa Magdy, Dec 06 '16 at 09:19
Possible duplicate of [Capture Curl Output to a File](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13735051/capture-curl-output-to-a-file) — Fky, Dec 06 '16 at 09:32
@Fky, thank you but my question is different, please check the updates — Doaa Magdy, Dec 06 '16 at 10:26

Fky · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-06T13:30:19.917

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You can use :

curl http://****/test.php >> /home/****/logs/cron_log/cron_log.log 2>&1

edited Dec 06 '16 at 13:30

answered Dec 06 '16 at 09:30

Fky

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Thank you, this works but without "2>&1" as this part adds the execution summary to the response. – Doaa Magdy Dec 06 '16 at 16:25
@DoaaMagdy you're welcome and yes , just remove it if don't want it :) – Fky Dec 07 '16 at 08:49

Log the return of curl which runs in a cron job

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