Question

I am looking for a script that will execute all of the bash scripts in a given directory in the order by which they were added. For example, the earliest scripts added to the directory would be executed first.

This is what I am using now, but it doesn’t seem to execute the scripts by date added.

for each in /dir/*.sh; 
do 
    bash $each > /dev/null 2>&1 ; 
    rm $each > /dev/null 2>&1 ; 
done ;

Let me know how could modify this to order the files in the directory by date added.

Answer 1

If you mean “in order of creation”:

ls -ctr /dir/*.sh | while read script
do
  bash $script > /dev/null 2>&1
  rm $script > /dev/null 2>&1
done