run-parts − run scripts found in a directory
run-parts <directory>
run-parts is a utility that will run scripts that are found in a directory. For example, it might be useful to create an /etc/cron.daily directory and put scripts in there for daily cron jobs. Then run-parts can be called once a day from root’s crontab to run all the scripts found in /etc/cron.daily:
40 4 * * * run-parts /etc/cron.daily
run-parts automatically skips files with certain suffixes that are generally associated with backup or extra files. Any file that ends in one of these will be silently ignored: ~ ^ , .bak .new .rpmsave .rpmorig .rpmnew .swp
Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi AT slackware DOT com>, with ideas borrowed from the Red Hat and Debian versions of this utility.