Are scripts in init.d executed synchronously/alphabetically?

[edwin.evans]

What order are the scripts in /etc/init.d executed? I figured it would be alphabetically but I'm seeing a script starting with P getting executed before one starting with A. Also, are these executed one after the other or in parallel? Is there a script that loads these scripts or is it compiled into the Operating System?

Thanks!

[Karl Godt]

/sbin/init is the default target for the linux kernel to execute after it had finished extracting vmlinuz . Puppy /sbin/init is since Lupu a script that executes /bin/busybox init , that by default runs /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit , which calls near its end /etc/rc.d/rc.services . This rc.services runs the scripts in init.d . The linux commands or shell internal functions often sort numbers before letters and lowercase often before uppercase or viceversa. :Punct: 's are also to consider .

Example :

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touch test.1 1test.2 11test.3 0100test.4 Test.5 '@test.6' '__Test.7'
ls -1 *[Tt]est.*
ls -1 *[Tt]est.* |sort

[edwin.evans]

/sbin/init is the default target for the linux kernel to execute after it had finished extracting vmlinuz . Puppy /sbin/init is since Lupu a script that executes /bin/busybox init , that by default runs /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit , which calls near its end /etc/rc.d/rc.services . This rc.services runs the scripts in init.d . The linux commands or shell internal functions often sort numbers before letters and lowercase often before uppercase or viceversa. :Punct: 's are also to consider .

Example :

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touch test.1 1test.2 11test.3 0100test.4 Test.5 '@test.6' '__Test.7'
ls -1 *[Tt]est.*
ls -1 *[Tt]est.* |sort

Thanks! That clears things up a lot!