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Old 05-10-2011
Source all files in a directory
Hi everyone,

Is there an efficient way to source all of the files contained in a directory? Theoretically I could create a FOR loop and successively source each file, but I just wanted to check if there was a cleaner method.

Thanks!

Mike
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Can you define 'source all files'?
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Old 05-10-2011
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Originally Posted by msb65
Hi everyone,

Is there an efficient way to source all of the files contained in a directory? Theoretically I could create a FOR loop and successively source each file, but I just wanted to check if there was a cleaner method.
A for-loop's pretty efficient, really.

That's the method I usually see done in init scripts and the like. Just for FILE in /etc/env.d/* ; do source $FILE ; done As a bonus it allows them to exclude certain names, they often do something like for FILE in /etc/env.d/[0-9][0-9]-* and only run files like 00-servicename.

I suspect there's not a short form because that would deprive you of the ability to give a sourced script parameters.
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Old 05-10-2011
If you mean "Source" as listing the files in the directory, then use ls -lrt, and if you want to list all including the subdirectories then use ls -lRt
 
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