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WordPress – execute php-file with post parameters

One a webpage there is a button / from is submitting a post request which calls via action
php_file_name.php?action=command.

Now I want to call this command from (bash) shell / cronjob.

P.S.: The PHP file is wp-admin/update-core.php from WordPress and the command is action=do-translation-upgrade. As WordPress does not provide an auto update function for this and there are no hints in WordPress boards I just want to do my own script for that.

Running curldoes not generate an error – but also did not succeed:

curl -v -d 'action=command' https://xxxx/php_file_name.php. But maybe this is not a practical way anyway because of needing login to the website.

As I am on the web-server itself I am able to run execute the PHP file directly with any user / rights needed.

Solutions like this use a request to an URL instead of calling an executable file.
Maybe I need to transform the command in the post request to function parameters similar to here?

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  1. 0

    Anything hindering you from directly calling "php ‘path to file’/update-core.php"? The only problem would be that you need to pass the action as parameter of this call which would be different than the web access.

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  2. 0

    If you are just trying to update the translations, try with WP-CLI

    wp language core update

    also try

    wp language plugin update / wp language theme update

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