linux - Does crontab file automatically bash a text file?

I have a crontab job setup. In the crontab file, I have a path to a text file. My text file has a wget command (which in turn, executes a PHP file). If the crontab file just has the path to the text file, will it automatically bash (execute) that text file? Or do I need to prefix the path to the text file with bash?

Answer

If the file is executable (check if it has x in ls -l, if not, then use chmod to set the executable bit) and the first line contains #!/bin/bash then it will be interpreted in bash.

The other option is, as you suggest, to pass it as an argument to bash:

/bin/bash /path/to/your/file.sh