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+.\" -*- nroff -*-
+.ds g \" empty
+.ds G \" empty
+.\" Like TP, but if specified indent is more than half
+.\" the current line-length - indent, use the default indent.
+.de Tp
+.ie \\n(.$=0:((0\\$1)*2u>(\\n(.lu-\\n(.iu)) .TP
+.el .TP "\\$1"
+..
+.TH RUN-PARTS 8 "14 Apr 2002" "Slackware Version 8.1.0
+.SH NAME
+run-parts \- run scripts found in a directory
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B run-parts <directory>
+.LP
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B 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
+.B 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
+
+.B 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
+.SH AUTHOR
+Patrick J. Volkerding <volkerdi@slackware.com>, with ideas borrowed from the
+Red Hat and Debian versions of this utility.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR crond(8),
+.BR crontab(8).