I'm using a wp-cli tool in order to optimize images:
$ wp image-optimize batch --limit=20
I've installed wpcli using composer so it's in an unusual location, but is in my $PATH:
/home/user/.config/composer/vendor/wp-cli/wp-cli/bin/wp
This works great. I'd like to run this command nightly. I've tried two different approaches to this. First, I tried running the command as a cronjob (set every minute for testing):
$ crontab -e
* * * * * cd /path/to/example.com && wp image-optimize batch --limit=20
I got no response. I wondered if the problem had something to do with passing arguments in a cronjob. So, I created a bash script nightly-image-optimize (also in path) hoping that this might get around it:
#!/bin/bash
echo "begin" >> /home/user/cronlog.log
cd /path/to/example.com
sh /home/user/.config/composer/vendor/wp-cli/wp-cli/bin/wp image-optimize batch --limit=2
echo "end" >> /home/user/cronlog.log
I then modified the cronjob to execute this file every minute as my username since cron runs as root:
* * * * * username /usr/local/bin/nightly-image-optimize
I know the cronjob is running because my cronlog.log file is created and is populated every minute with the echo begin and end statements above.
While in context this is a wp-cli problem, I don't believe that the issue has anything to do with wp-cli. I think I'm misunderstanding how to essentially 'tell' bash to run a process as if I had manually entered it in (maybe something to do with the interactivity of wp-cli?).
Any ideas?
Note: I'm on AWS running Ubuntu 18.04.3 as a non-root user with sudo privileges