Run all scripts in a sub-directory

Question

When git runs my post-receive hook, I'd like it to run all the scripts in the subdirectory post-receive.d.

My script is as follows

#!/bin/bash
SOURCE="${BASH_SOURCE[0]}"
DIR="$( dirname "$SOURCE" )"

for SCRIPT in $DIR/post-receive.d/*
do
  if [ -f "$SCRIPT" -a -x "$SCRIPT" ] 
  then
    "$SCRIPT"
  fi
done

Source: https://github.com/alexchamberlain/githooks/blob/master/post-receive

Is this secure? Reliable?

I can foresee one problem. The hook supplies data using stdin, which should be copied to each subscript. I'm pretty sure this isn't happening at the moment. Any ideas?

Answer 1

for SCRIPT in $DIR/post-receive.d/*

You might want to limit that to only *.sh pattern, just for clarity.

Personally I'm a fan of the one-line-style, but that's personal preference:

for ITEM in SET; do
if [ CONDITION ]; then

And yes, input from stdin is at the moment ignored completely by your script. Reading from stdin can be done via the read command, like this.

#!/bin/sh

# This whill be our input variable
input=""

# Read the first line without adding
# a new line to the start.
read input

# Start reading from stdin
while read line; do
    # Concate the input into our variable
    input=$input"\n"$line
done

# Echo it...what else?
echo $input

After doing that you can pipe the variable into the scripts like this:

echo $INPUT | "$SCRIPT"

One word of warning: I'm not sure if this is BASH only or cross-shell compatible.