Re: To 'f' or not to 'f'

On Fri, 2024-10-11 at 08:56 -0400, Steve Matzura wrote:
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> Under some now ancient version of PHP--probably 6, I had a cron job that read:
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>  php -f {my-php-script}
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>  and it ran every day like it was supposed to. Now, under 8.3, the job did not execute any more. I
> removed the '-f' from the line in cron, and the job runs. What is the difference between with and
> without 'f' if '-f' is supposed to be superfluous?
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The php man page says:
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--file file
       -f file        Parse and execute file
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so it looks like it should work but why the { } block?  That may be confusing cron. 

John
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