i'm trying to use cron (albeit in a hack sort of way) to execute a server command that i need to do only once. ideally i would telnet in, but need to figure out another way to make it work. the command i'm executing is below

xgettext --language=PHP /public_html/neht50/wp-content/themes/victoria/*.php

now that directory structure exists in my system but i get this back from cron

xgettext: error while opening "/public_html/neht50/wp-content/themes/victoria/*.php" for reading: No such file or directory

i'm guessing that the path i'm providing needs to be formatted some other way.

any ideas?