linux - Cron job ignores part of trigger url

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I created a cron job to trigger a url
at set times, which in turn starts a product import script. But for some reason part of
the trigger url with parameters is stripped
away.

I set the cron job like
this:

/usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null
            http://domain.nl/wp-cron.php?import_key=XXXXXXXXXX&import_id=3&action=processing

But
it only runs
http://domain.nl/wp-cron.php?import_key=XXXXXXXXXX. Where is
the last part that actually tells the script what to
do?

Who knows why it behaves like this and how
to get it to work?

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href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/86247/29235">The ampersand character
(&) actually means something in Linux (well, in a
Bourne-compatible shell). It means: run the command as a background
task.

Because of that, you are
actually telling cron to run /usr/bin/wget -O /dev/null
http://domain.nl/wp-cron.php?import_key=XXXXXXXXXX in the background, and
then to do action=processing. And that's what cron is doing for
you - what you told it to do.

To get around
this, you need to escape the & character, so that it gets
processed as part of the url, rather than being interpreted as a control character.

The easiest solution is to
encapsulate the url in quotes.