Last updated on June 18, 2020 by Dan Nanni
If you want to run all scripts or executable binaries in a particular directory, you can use a command line utility called run-parts
. This tool can automatically discover multiple scripts or programs in a directory, and run them all.
You can use run-parts
command in the following format.
$ run-parts [options] <target-directory>
Scripts found in a directory will be run one by one in a lexically sorted order. run-parts
will execute all the scripts whose names consist of alphanumeric letters, underscores and hyphens.
For example, to run all scripts in the current directory:
$ run-parts .
Optionally, you can run only those scripts whose names are matched with a regular expression. For that, use --regex
option.
For example, to run all scripts in /etc
whose names start with a
and end with .sh
:
$ run-parts --regex '^a.*.sh$' /etc
With --test
option, you can print the names of the scripts which would be executed, without actually running them. This is useful for testing purpose.
$ run-parts --test ./my_script_directory
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