Is there a way to pass the username and password from a file instead of the command line via –user and –password?
Background: I want to run wget via cron and don't want the username/password show up in process view
Wget: Is there a way to pass username and password from a file
credentialspassworduser-accountswget
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Best Answer
Use a
.wgetrcfile (GNU manual) in which you can set username and passwords for either or both ftp and http.To use the same credentials for both specify
or individually