Cronjob to visit each url of a list but not save them

I have a txt file list.txt that have bunch of urls, one every line. I want to set a cron job that wget/curl each url of the file once a day but does not save them in the computer.

I tried to run this on the terminal first.

wget -i /root/list.txt -O /dev/null

The command doesnt work understandably. It saves the list.txt to /dev/null, not the files from the urls inside list.txt. Then it says "no urls found".

So how do I do it properly? Wget each urls from a list but dont save anything on the computer?

If you don't want to download the URLs, suppress it by using --spider. And you can remove the clutter with -q, which has the additional benefit the actual errors are still handled by crond and forwarded if set up properly.

wget -i /root/list.txt --spider -q

Not sure why you're using wget here, as the primary goal of that tool is to download file(s).

With curl and a simple loop, it should work, something like this :

for i in `cat list.txt`; do curl $i; done

And nothing will be downloaded, just a hit on the targeted websites in your text list.