RUN\-PARTS
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 27 Jun 2012
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NAME
run-parts - run scripts or programs in a directory
SYNOPSIS
run-parts
[--test] [--verbose] [--report] [--lsbsysinit] [--regex=RE]
[--umask=umask] [--arg=argument] [--exit-on-error] [--help]
[--version] [--list] [--reverse] [--] DIRECTORY
run-parts
-V
DESCRIPTION
run-parts
runs all the executable files named within constraints described below, found
in directory
directory.
Other files and directories are silently ignored.
If neither the --lsbsysinit option nor the --regex option is given then the
names must consist entirely of ASCII upper- and lower-case letters, ASCII
digits, ASCII underscores, and ASCII minus-hyphens. However, the name must not
begin with a period.
If the --lsbsysinit option is given, then the names must not end
in .dpkg-old or .dpkg-dist or .dpkg-new or .dpkg-tmp, and must
belong to one or more of the following namespaces: the
LANANA-assigned namespace (^[a-z0-9]+$); the LSB hierarchical and
reserved namespaces (^_?([a-z0-9_.]+-)+[a-z0-9]+$);
and the Debian cron script namespace (^[a-zA-Z0-9_-]+$).
If the --regex option is given, the names must match the custom
extended regular expression specified as that option's argument.
Files are run in the lexical sort order (according to the C/POSIX
locale character collation rules) of their names unless the
--reverse option is given, in which case they are run in the
opposite order.
OPTIONS
- --test
-
print the names of the scripts which would be run, but don't actually run
them.
- --list
-
print the names of the all matching files (not limited to executables),
but don't actually run them. This option cannot be used with --test.
- -v, --verbose
-
print the name of each script to stderr before running.
- --report
-
similar to
--verbose,
but only prints the name of scripts which produce output. The script's name is printed to whichever of stdout or stderr the script first produces output on.
- --reverse
-
reverse the scripts' execution order.
- --exit-on-error
-
exit as soon as a script returns with a non-zero exit code.
- --lsbsysinit
-
use LSB namespaces instead of classical behavior.
- --new-session
-
run each script in a separate process session. If you use this option,
killing run-parts will not kill the currently running script, it will
run until completion.
- --regex=RE
-
validate filenames against custom extended regular expression
RE.
See the EXAMPLES section for an example.
- -u, --umask=umask
-
sets the umask to
umask
before running the scripts.
umask
should be specified in octal. By default the umask is set to 022.
- -a, --arg=argument
-
pass
argument
to the scripts. Use
--arg
once for each argument you want passed.
- --
-
specifies that this is the end of the options. Any filename after
--
will be not be interpreted as an option even if it starts with a
hyphen.
- -h, --help
-
display usage information and exit.
- -V, --version
-
display version and copyright and exit.
EXAMPLES
Print the names of all files in /etc that start with `p' and end with `d':
run-parts --list --regex [aq]^p.*d$[aq] /etc
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1994 Ian Jackson.
Copyright (C) 1996 Jeff Noxon.
Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998 Guy Maor
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Clint Adams
run-parts
is free software; see the GNU General Public License version 2 or
later for copying conditions. There is
no
warranty.
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