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I desire to match all files ending with a certain extension with a shell glob.

In this case I desire to target all files ending with the .sh extension, which are bourne files I execute with the Bash shell after putting a "shebang" (like #!/bin/bash) at their first line.

This is, for example, a cron command I have:

0 0 * * * "$HOME"/public_html/cron_daily/myfile.sh 2>/dev/null

Instead myfile.sh I need to target all files in that dir, ending with a .sh extension.

Is the following code correct?

0 0 * * * "$HOME"/public_html/cron_daily/*$.sh 2>/dev/null

Update

I think this is good when using a glob:

*.sh

You can't do it that way, since they will be combined into one command line.

for scr in "$HOME"/public_html/cron_daily/*.sh ; do "$scr" 2> /dev/null; done

You’d just use *.sh to match all files with a .sh extension. (Adding the path as appropriate.)

However this won’t have the result you’re after. Look at run-parts to run multiple scripts from cron:

0 0 * * * /usr/bin/run-parts "$HOME"/public_html/cron_daily/ 2>/dev/null

(This will run all executables in .../public_html/cron_daily, not just .sh files. By the way, are you sure it’s a good idea to keep cron scripts under public_html? Is that directory being served by your web server?)